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Plant will close its 40-acre secondary impoundment pond Cotter has committed to close its 40-acre secondary impoundment pond with its recent license amendment with the state, plant manager John Hamrick told the Lincoln Park/Cotter Superfund Community Advisory Group on Thursday. About 20 people gathered at Garden Park High School for the monthly CAG meeting. Hamrick said the agreement also calls for Cotter to establish a timeline for certain actions, including a March 31 deadline for a commitment letter. That document will detail Cotter's plans to either close its uranium plant south of Cañon City, the site of a Superfund cleanup, or retool it for continued production.

Cotter is responsible for the 25-year-old Superfund site that engulfs Lincoln Park. A Superfund site is one of the most toxic places on Earth because of radioactive and chemical contamination. It is time for a Superfund meeting, and it is time for informed decisions that protect our future and us. CCAT has asked for one right away so you can get answers about contamination in the Cotter/Lincoln Park Superfund site and about Cotter's future plans. We have just received the news that there will be a meeting from 6 to 9 p.m. June 8 at Harrison School, 920 Field Ave.

"The first million tons of uranium tailings have been taken away from a huge pile near Moab. The U.S. Department of Energy says the milestone was reached this week as part of an ongoing project to remove 16 million tons of radioactive waste from the shores of the Colorado River. The waste is being loaded on trains and shipped to a disposal site 30 miles to the north. The Energy Department is overseeing the work. Crews began loading railroad cars in April and hauling the waste to a series of cells at Crescent Junction designed for long-term storage for hazardous waste. The project is expected to cost around $1 billion."