Re: Envirocare Sues City of Golden

[michael_coogen@ccgw1.hq.dla.mil]

     In this day and age, everybody is a potential candidate for liability 
     processess....including the radioactive waste...is it really the 
     public health at issue or the ~6M......my opinion only


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Subject: Envirocare Sues City of Golden
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at ~GW1
Date:    2/12/96 5:55 PM


Reported in the Golden Transcript [local twice weekly paper] 
was a suit by Envirocare of Utah against the City of Golden, 
Colorado.  Envirocare alledges that the City's disposal of 
several tons of soil mildly contaminated with primarily mill talings 
from the now defunct, Colorado School of Mines Research Institute is 
hazardous.  BTW it is the Research Institute not the School that is 
defunct.  Envirocare alledged it is strictly concerned over the health 
of the citizens of Colorado.  Envirocare bid on the disposal but the EPA 
and State Health Department approved an alternative proposal do dis pose 
of the material in a nonregulated land fill as it does not meet the 
definition of "radioactive" or possibly "hazardous" waste.  As I recall 
the cost of the Envirocare disposal, including shipping was ~$6M and
the alternate is about half that.  The disposal is being funded by 
the EPA but cost should be recovered through Superfund Procedures.
     
I do not have any details about the composition or exact nature of the 
waste, it is after all, a local newspaper, and it is usually difficult 
to find such things in a bigger daily.
     
I thought it might be of interest to some of you that somebody might 
sue to get waste.
     
Disclaimer-  Any opinions are my own and do not reflect those of 
the Denver VA Medical Center, The Dept. of Veterans Affairs, or the 
U.S. Government.
     
Peter G. Vernig, VA Medical Center, Denver, vernig.peter@forum.va.gov