Laptop Battery Residents of Caon City, a small town in central Colorado, are accustomed to taking in the worst society has to offer. The 13 nearby state and federal prisons are filled with examples, like Theodore J. Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, and Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, one of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers. But prisoners are one thing. Up to 470,000 tons of radioactive dirt enough to fill 9,700 rail cars are quite another. The possibility that the dirt may be headed there from New Jersey has set the town on edge, making Ca on City the latest community in the West to join the nationwide debate over what to do with toxic waste.
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Thinkpad Political battles over the storage of radioactive and nuclear material are not uncommon in the West. In Nevada, for example, residents are fighting the government over the use of Yucca Mountain as a site for the storage of radioactive waste. But there and elsewhere, people opposed to waste storage almost always knew what was coming and who was bringing it.
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Microsoft That has not been the case in Caon City, a town of 15,000 on the Arkansas River. People there never even knew they would have a fight until they read about the shipment in a local newspaper. The newspaper reported that a local processing plant operated by the Cotter Corporation, a division of General Atomics, a nuclear technology company based in San Diego, had contracted with the Army Corps of Engineers to receive the radioactive dirt from a Superfund cleanup site in Maywood, N.J. The dirt would fill existing disposal ponds of uranium tailings, residue from processing. Otherwise the company would have to buy ordinary dirt.
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Laptop Computers The deal is worth millions of dollars to Cotter company officials declined to say how much and psychological comfort to people in Maywood, where neighborhoods were built on ground contaminated with thorium, a radioactive mineral once used in gas lanterns, from a chemical plant that operated from 1916 through 1959.
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Laptop Computer But residents of Caon City say the deal was a sucker punch, because Cotter failed to share details with them.
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Desktop Computer "We're scared, really scared," said Lynn Dillon, a member of Colorado Citizens Against Toxic Waste, a group that was formed to stop the shipment. "We're a sleepy little town. We don't want to become a dumping site."
Notebooks The group organized quickly. Its members began complaining to local, state and federal officials, insisting that the town had never been informed about the possible health and safety risks of bringing such a large quantity of toxic material into the area, which itself became a Superfund site in 1983. (Leaching from the Cotter ponds contaminated air and water near the plant.)
Lenovo Responding to the complaints, Gov. Bill Owens asked the State Department of Public Health and Environment to review Cotter's deal. That request was enough to delay shipment until Cotter addressed concerns raised by the department. Doug Benevento, the department's director of environmental programs, said the company had not yet responded.
Hard Drive In addition, state lawmakers moved a bill quickly through the legislature that would make public input and environmental reviews a requirement of any deal to bring toxic waste into Colorado. Governor Owens, a Republican, signed the bill into law today.
Travelstar The new law could further delay the shipments, although Patrick R. Mutz, the plant manager, conceded that the company had not expected smooth sailing.
Gateway "It's part of the cost of doing business," Mr. Mutz said in an interview, referring to delays. "We'll do what they ask us to do."
Laptop Parts But delays, he said, would do more harm than good. He argued that the Maywood dirt would benefit the community because it had a lower level of radioactivity than the materials it would cover.
Software "As a result," Mr. Mutz said, "it would reduce the radioactivity in the area."
Hard Drives That is the kind of answer that leaves opponents gnashing their teeth. Cotter, they contend, has never had community interest in mind. They base that assertion on the federal lawsuits the company has lost over health and property damage. A 1989 case was settled eight years later, with 542 plaintiffs winning a large settlement the amount was sealed by the court and other judgments against the company are now under appeal.
Electronics Residents also say they were never told about the recent revision of Cotter's license to allow for disposal.
Canon Mr. Mutz said the change, made 18 months ago, was approved by the state and the Environmental Protection Agency. But to that point, the plant had been relatively dormant for years, owing to the decline in the nation's nuclear energy industry. Expecting no major new activity there, developers began building large single-family homes on the hills within a mile of the plant, selling them for as much as $500,000.
Desktop Pc "Cotter made the change in license with no public input, with no environmental impact studies, with no communication with the community," said Larry LaBuda, a member of the citizens group. "We formed the group to make sure that doesn't happen again."
Desktop Computers Once public outrage began building over the Maywood deal, Cotter invited residents to a meeting to discuss the issue, a session that grew so heated that the police were called in. Other meetings are planned.
Think Pad Mr. Mutz said that residents' overheated emotions had clouded their thinking about the proposed deal, and that if they truly understood what Cotter was doing, they would see the operation in a better light.
Repair "This is a controversial subject," he said. "We appreciate people's fears. It's not something we hold against anybody."
Data Recovery Mayor H. Ben Johnson, a lifetime Caon City resident who took office in January, said he sympathized with his upset neighbors but believed that many people were reacting to fear, not facts.
Cisco The mayor said Cotter had become a better neighbor after losing the lawsuits, and he predicted that no matter what the plant did, Ca on City would continue to thrive as a tourist attraction. Thousands visit the city every summer to gaze at the Royal Gorge and the suspension bridge above it, the highest in the world, at 1,050 feet, and to raft along the river.
Keyboard "My wife and I were talking about this the other day," Mr. Johnson said. "We've traveled all over the world and, as she reminded me, I can't remember the last time I called ahead to ask if they have a uranium dump."
Monitor By Michael Janofsky
New York Times - 4/6/2002
Topic: Toxics
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