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Earl

December 31, 2016 10:34AM

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There was lots of nasty stuff in that tailings pile beyond whatever radioactive materials there were there. There were concentrations of lead and other heavy metals. Durango is not the only plce where serious remediation had been done. There are houses in Durango built on fill from the smelter tailings that date back to the 1880's. I'm surprised the houses haven't been torn down, somebody sued and so forth. Some nasty stuff out there.

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Durango Morning - August 2, 1967	Earl	December 30, 2016 03:12PM
Re: Durango Morning - August 2, 1967	Earl	December 30, 2016 03:28PM
Re: Durango Morning - August 2, 1967	Earl	December 30, 2016 03:31PM
Re: Durango Morning - August 2, 1967	dougvv	December 30, 2016 04:16PM
Re: Durango Morning - August 2, 1967	rehunn	December 30, 2016 04:27PM
Re: Durango Morning - August 2, 1967	CharlieMcCandless	December 30, 2016 04:53PM
Re: Durango Morning - August 2, 1967	Earl	December 30, 2016 05:10PM
Re: Durango Morning - August 2, 1967	rehunn	December 30, 2016 07:01PM
Re: Durango Morning - August 2, 1967	AZfarmer	January 03, 2017 03:21PM
Re: Durango Morning - August 2, 1967	edm3rd	January 17, 2017 12:26PM
Re: Durango Morning - August 2, 1967	Earl	January 17, 2017 01:01PM
Re: Durango Morning - August 2, 1967	edm3rd	January 18, 2017 08:54AM
Re: Durango Morning - August 2, 1967	Earl	December 31, 2016 12:19AM
Durango Smelter	hank	December 31, 2016 08:07AM
Re: Durango Smelter - 1962	Russo Loco	January 16, 2017 05:18PM
Re: Durango Smelter - 1962	Floppo	January 16, 2017 11:08PM
Re: Durango Smelter - 1962	rehunn	January 17, 2017 10:21AM
Re: Durango Morning - August 2, 1967	rehunn	December 31, 2016 10:01AM
Re: Durango Morning - August 2, 1967	guymonmd	December 31, 2016 08:37AM
Talking to the pesky kid	John West	December 31, 2016 09:53AM
Re: Durango Morning - August 2, 1967	Earl	December 31, 2016 10:34AM
Re: Durango Morning - August 2, 1967	Dave Peterson	December 31, 2016 05:37PM
Re: Durango Morning - August 2, 1967	jalbers	January 03, 2017 03:31PM
Re: Durango Morning - August 2, 1967	Earl	January 16, 2017 07:08PM
Re: Durango Morning - August 2, 1967	Earl	January 18, 2017 10:48AM

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