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Nearly 40 years later, one of Colorado’s longest-running Superfund sites still has no radioactive waste cleanup plan

Latest delays were caused by financial insolvency of company charged with responsibility

Jeri Fry, cofounder of Colorado Citizens Against Toxic Waste, or CCAT, right, shows the site of the Soil Conservation Service Dam on the Cotter Uranium Mill Superfund site to resident Ricardo Simmons, left, on October 17, 2023, in Cañon City, Colorado. Fry’s father, Lynn Boughton, was a whistleblower at the Cotter uranium processing mill. The Cotter Uranium Mill Superfund site near Cañon City has an estimated 5.8 million tons of radioactive waste buried within 2 miles of homes. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
Jeri Fry, cofounder of Colorado Citizens Against Toxic Waste, or CCAT, right, shows the site of the Soil Conservation Service Dam on the Cotter Uranium Mill Superfund site to resident Ricardo Simmons, left, on October 17, 2023, in Cañon City, Colorado. Fry’s father, Lynn Boughton, was a whistleblower at the Cotter uranium processing mill. The Cotter Uranium Mill Superfund site near Cañon City has an estimated 5.8 million tons of radioactive waste buried within 2 miles of homes. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
DENVER, CO - NOVEMBER 8: Elise Schmelzer - Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio. (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
By | eschmelzer@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
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Nearly 40 years after federal regulators designated a former uranium mill near Cañon City as a Superfund site and mandated its cleanup, there is still no plan for how to deal with the millions of tons of radioactive material.
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