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Posts Tagged Water Quality

Cash for Cleaning Clear Creek

By | 08.23.07 | 7:00 am

The Clear Creek Watershed Foundation based in Idaho Springs is in line for a $544,000 grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to protect water quality for the system on which about 300,000 denver metro area residents…

UPDATE: New EPA Rules for Superfund ‘Good Samaritans’

By | 06.06.07 | 3:53 pm

The Environmental Protection Agency has issued some new regulations designed to make it easier for citizens and volunteers — called Good Samaritans — to clean up abandoned mining sites and improve water quality.

There are 22,000 abandoned mines sites…

Western Slope Round-Up: Don’t Drink, Breathe, Live or Be a Mountain Here

By | 05.08.07 | 1:00 pm

Colorado Confidential perused recent newspaper headlines across the Western Slope to give you a glimpse of current issues. Water, air quality, growth impacts…it’s definitely a land of transition and loss.