Earl Wrote:
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> I understand the sprinklers were to keep the dust
> down when the wind blew. The smelter stack stood
> until the early 1980's. I remember hearing about
> it when it came down.
>
IIRC the stack was gone by the time I was going to Durango on weekends to date a woman I'd met at the Salida Trailways depot at Xmass time in '82. (January-April of '83, then she moved to Gunnison and we got married). I am certain that how to, and how much to, clean up the radioactive waste left from the 1950's at the smelter site was a major topic/issue in Durango at that time. I remember much argument about it going on (when I came up for air, as it were)
hank