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Colorado uranium mine still leaking radioactivity – Cotter ordered to stop this

Colorado regulators order Cotter to do more to stop uranium contamination of water.By Karen E. Crummy, The Denver Post 29 sept 11 Uranium-laden water from a contaminated mine is still flowing into Ralston Creek, leading state regulators Wednesday to demand that the mine’s owner divert creek water away from its facility and find the source of the contamination……

Cotter Corp., which owns the defunct Schwartzwalder Mine in Jefferson County, has until Oct. 7 to submit a design- and-construction plan for a bypass pipeline. That pipeline is to be “substantially completed” by Jan. 31.

Additionally, Cotter is required to submit a plan and time schedule for the “aggressive removal or containment of all groundwater and surface water pollutant sources” at the mine…..

In April 2010, the state ordered Cotter to clean up contamination after it found uranium concentrations 1,000 times over health standards in groundwater 30 feet beneath the mine. Uranium levels in the creek have tested 13 times higher than human health standards…..

Cotter has had numerous problems with the state over the years. Most recently, the company filed a lawsuit against the Colorado Mined Lands Reclamation Board, accusing it of abusing its discretion when it ordered Cotter to pump out and treat the uranium-tainted water in its mine.

Read more:Colorado regulators order Cotter to do more to stop uranium contamination of water – The Denver Posthttp://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_19000649#ixzz1ZTNioKOW

September 30, 2011 - Posted by | environment, USA

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