Environmental Issues
Three former uranium mill sites in Colorado are current United States Environmental Protection Agency National Priorities List (Superfund) sites:
- Denver Radium Site, Denver
- Lincoln Park, adjacent to the Cotter Corporation uranium mill at Canon City in Fremont County. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is supervising cleanup of waste from previous operations. The mill still has a license to process uranium ore.
- Uravan Uranium Project, at the now-abandoned town of Uravan, in Montrose County.
In addition, there are 15 Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) sites in the state, under the purview of the United States Department of Energy. Eight of the sites are former uranium ore mills, and seven are engineered permanent disposal sites for the mill tailings.
Read more about this topic: Uranium Mining In Colorado
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