Tag: environment
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Government investigators: EPA could have prevented Colorado mine spill
BILLINGS, Mont. — Government investigators squarely blamed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Thursday for a 3 million gallon wastewater spill from a Colorado gold mine, saying an EPA cleanup crew rushed its work and failed to consider the complex engineering involved, triggering the very blowout it hoped to avoid. The spill that fouled rivers in…
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Colorado Springs debating costly attack on destructive moths
Vote in our poll: Mobile users can scroll to the bottom of the story to participate; desktop users can find the poll to the right of this article. Should Colorado Springs spend big to protect the beauty of its Front Range or do nothing and risk allowing trees to die by the thousands? It’s the…
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Colorado Springs debating costly attack on destructive moths
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Vote in our poll: Mobile users can scroll to the bottom of the story to participate; desktop users can find the poll to the right of this article. Should Colorado Springs spend big to protect…
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New treatment plant running at site of Colorado mine spill
DENVER — A temporary treatment plant has begun cleaning up polluted water flowing from the Gold King Mine in Colorado after an accident sent millions of gallons of waste into rivers in three states, the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday. The plant is running 24 hours a day and processing up to 800 gallons per…
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EPA: Sediment accidentally released in western Colorado creek
DENVER — An Environmental Protection Agency contractor inadvertently released about 2,000 gallons of sediment-bearing water into a creek from a holding pond at a western Colorado Superfund site, officials said Thursday. EPA spokeswoman Laura Jenkins said the water in the pond had been treated and had a neutral pH, meaning it was neither acidic nor…
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On Colorado mine cleanup, Superfund idea divides residents
DENVER (AP) — Southwestern Colorado residents told Congress on Thursday that the Gold King Mine blowout and other mines spilling acid waste into waterways could cause serious long-term damage to their tourism economy, but they disagreed on whether a federal Superfund designation would help or hurt. A rafting company owner, a county commissioner and a…
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On Colorado mine cleanup, Superfund idea divides residents
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER (AP) — Southwestern Colorado residents told Congress on Thursday that the Gold King Mine blowout and other mines spilling acid waste into waterways could cause serious long-term damage to their tourism economy, but they…
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Huge crane used at Colorado Springs power plant begins service
Unit 6 is in a tight spot. That’s why a mammoth crane is hovering beside it at the Martin Drake Power Plant, lifting and lowering tons of equipment piece by piece into a little scrap of land at the edge of downtown Colorado Springs. Drake’s Unit 7 had easy access to install apparatus for NeuStream…
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Huge crane used at Colorado Springs power plant begins service
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Unit 6 is in a tight spot. That’s why a mammoth crane is hovering beside it at the Martin Drake Power Plant, lifting and lowering tons of equipment piece by piece into a little scrap…
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Downtown stakeholders unhappy with expected power plan recommendation for Colorado Springs Utilities
The Colorado Springs Utilities staff and customer advisory group have chosen a new energy plan, Portfolio D, that won’t close any coal-burning unit at the Martin Drake Power Plant until 2023. Portfolio options graphic They’ll inform the public during a hearing Tuesday night. But some downtown business owners already are dismayed by that choice. The…