Almost six years have passed since El Paso County leaders told the new owners of a mountainous pile of discarded tires to begin aggressively attacking the mess south of Fountain.
And while Colorado Energy Recyclers has taken steps to make its Midway Tire Monofill less of an environmental hazard, District 4 Commissioner Dennis Hisey said the progress is a disappointment.
“I will give them credit for making it safer. They just haven’t been cranking out the volume that they wanted and we wanted to see. We wanted to see the piles depleting,” said Hisey, who had CER officials give a progress report to the Board of County Commissioners on Aug. 23.
Gina Nance, who manages the Midway facility, said CER estimates there are about 23 million tires on the site, which had piled up for more than two decades after the dump began in the 1980s. Active shredding operations began this year.
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