Durango Colorado
Durango, Colorado
Personnel from SandiaNational Laboratories/New Mexico installed four PRBs at the Durango,Colorado, Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action site in October 1995. ThesePRBs are managed by GJO. Both foamed zero-valent iron bricks, producedby Cercona of America (contact: rhelferich@coax.net ),and steel wool are used as reactive media to remove ammonium, arsenic,cadmium, chromium, manganese, molybdenum, nitrate, radium-226, selenium,uranium, vanadium, and zinc contamination from leachate exiting the uraniummill tailings disposal cell. After passing through the zero-valent iron,the leachate contaminant levels meet the regulatory standards. ... [Read More]
Rebuild Colorado - Success Story - City of Durango and the Children's Museum of Durango
and the City of Durango are embarking on a project to rehabilitate the historic 1893 Durango Powerhouse into a hands-on energy and science museum called the Durango Discovery Museum. This project will combine sustainable design principles with a historic building renovation, incorporate past, present, and future energy technologies, and rehabilitate a brownfield adjacent to the Animas River. Phased construction is expected to begin in July 2004, with an estimated opening date of Fall 2006. The project is expected to boost the economic vitality of the historic downtown retail area, stretching from 4th to 14th Street. While the south end (beginning at 4th Street) is a vibrant tourism center, the north end is a blighted area that has been designated an enterprise zone by the Colorado Department of Economic Development. The project's goal is to transform the blighted site at 14th Street and the abandoned powerhouse, into a vibrant hub for the City. The City of Durango owns the land and bui ... [Read More]
Durango, Colorado (Umtra Site)
The former Durango uranium processing site islocated just outside the city limits of Durango in southwest Colorado.The site is bordered on the east by the Animas River, on the northby Lightner Creek, and on the southwest by Smelter Mountain. Twotailings piles were located on the 59-hectare (147-acre) site.Prior to the cleanup, the two tailings piles contained approximately912,000 cubic meters (1.2 million cubic yards) of contaminatedmaterial and covered four hectares (ten acres) of the site. Themill site and ore storage area covered about 20 hectares (eightacres). The raffinate pond area was located nearly 0.8 kilometers(one-half mile) southeast of the millsite and covered about sixhectares (15 acres). ... [Read More]
Multifamily Housing - Neighborhood Networks - Colorado Center Spreads the Wealth - HUD
When the printers arrived--at no cost to the Durango Housing Neighborhood Networks Center, the Southern Ute Tribe donated a forklift and enlisted the help of tribal employees to unload the 26 pallets of printers into a temporary storage room donated by Ignacio Adult Learning Center. With assistance from a dozen nonprofit partners, Durango Housing Neighborhood Networks Center staff members distributed the printers to nonprofit groups, Title I schools, and churches. For its part in the distribution of the printers, the Durango Housing Neighborhood Networks Center was able to keep 18 printers. ... [Read More]
Colorado Department of Personnel & Administration (DPA) Division of Information Technologies (DoIT)
The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad ... History of the Durango Area ... Colorado Springs & Durango ... [Read More]
Mesa Verde National Park - Plan Your Visit
The closest bus terminal is located in Durango, Colorado. Car rental is needed to get from the bus terminal to the park. The entrance to Mesa Verde is 35 miles from Durango. ... Mesa Verde National Park is in Southwestern Colorado. The Mesa Verde Headquarters is a one-hour drive from Cortez, Colorado, heading east on Highway 160 to the park turnoff, and a 1.5 hour drive from Durango, Colorado, heading west on Highway 160 to the park turnoff. ... The nearest airports are Cortez, Colorado, Durango, Colorado, and Farmington, New Mexico. ... [Read More]
Recreation.gov
Durango, CO 81301 ... Take County Road 240 north from Durango, CO, to the intersection of County Rd. 243, about 12 miles. Take County Rd. 243 (dirt road) north to Lemon Reservoir, about 2 miles. ... Weekly National Weather Service Forecast for Durango, CO. ... [Read More]
PRB Field Projects
GJO teamed with several government agencies in 1997 toinstall PRBs to treat uranium-contaminated groundwater at Fry Canyon, Utah.Installation of a PRB hydraulically downgradient of the Monticello, Utah,millsite was completed June 30, 1999, as an Interim Remedial Action. APRB was installed in October 1995 to treat water from a uranium mill tailingsdisposal site at Durango, Colorado. The Durango site is in the UraniumMill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Ground Water Project. ... [Read More]
|