http://brucefinley.com Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:15:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SAN PABLO - Water here is so scarce that farmers habitually gaze up at the mountains surrounding their valley - where over-pumping from aquifers may force 80,000 irrigated acres out of production. Read More http://brucefinley.com/water/water-worries-in-colorados-san-luis-valley-come-to-surface/ It'll take at least a decade before Cotter Corp.'s contaminated Colorado uranium mill is cleaned up under a new deal aimed at accelerating work at the site. The agreement settles a long-running dispute about the surety fund - state officials have estimated cleanup would cost as much as $40 million - and also sets Cotter's ... http://brucefinley.com/environment/cotter-corp-adds-68-million-to-uranium-mill-cleanup-as-colorado-accelerates-timetable/ Workers at Suncor Energy 's oil refinery north of Denver - nearly all 500 - have had their blood tested for benzene as Suncor excavates pipeline to deal with tainted tap water and tries to contain contamination of Sand Creek. Nobody knows how long drinking water at the Suncor refinery has ... http://brucefinley.com/environment/suncor-workers-at-refinery-near-denver-get-blood-tests-for-benzene/ South-metro leaders and a growing number of fishermen are pushing to let the South Platte be more of a natural river as it flows down from the mountains through the Denver area. Read More http://brucefinley.com/water/denvers-south-platte-river-rehabilitation-plan-designed-to-restore-fisheries-read-more-denvers-south-platte-river-rehabilitation-plan-designed-to-restore-fisheries/ Denver metro planners who often don't see eye to eye on land-use issues are trying to create a green ring of public open space flanking the metro area's two-thirds-completed high- speed beltway. Read More http://brucefinley.com/environment/rocky-flats-land-swap-boosts-goal-of-open-space-ring-around-metro-beltway/ BOULDER - The U.S. government is deploying Colorado scientists to lead a $5.4 million effort to gauge the impact of shrinking Himalayan glaciers on water supplies across Asia. The question is whether rivers that sustain more than 2 billion people are fed primarily by water from rainfall, by seasonal snowmelt or ... http://brucefinley.com/environment/cu-researchers-wade-into-effect-of-shrinking-himalayan-glaciers-on-asias-water-supply-read-more-cu-researchers-wade-into-effect-of-shrinking-himalayan-glaciers-on-asias-water-supply/ Cotter Corp. has thrown in the towel on uranium processing at its Colorado uranium mill and moved toward cleanup of pollution at the site near the Arkansas River southeast of Cañon City. Read More http://brucefinley.com/environment/cotter-corp-to-give-up-on-uranium-processing-in-colorado-read-more-cotter-corp-to-give-up-on-uranium-processing-in-colorado/ State health regulators on Thursday issued orders formalizing cleanup work already in progress to stanch the the flow of hazardous liquid seeping into Sand Creek and addressing newly identified contamination spreading underground from Suncor Energy's refinery to an adjacent Metro Wastewater plant. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cleanup coordinators determined that the ... http://brucefinley.com/environment/cleanup-orders-at-colorados-suncor-refinery-spill-into-sand-creek-officially-issued/ Federal environmental officials have taken charge of a continuing toxic leak into Sand Creek and the South Platte River north of downtown Denver, trying to stop oily black goo from fouling northeastern Colorado's primary source of water. Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment officials have known about hazardous leakages in ... http://brucefinley.com/environment/cleanup-crews-attack-toxic-goo-in-south-platte-north-of-denver/ FORT COLLINS - As scientist Diana Wall and her team peered at them through microscopes, the trapped tiny creatures feasted on morsels in dirt. A nematode's innards bulged full of carbon and nitrogen. A water bear pulsed, devouring algae. Spiderlike mites and springtails jumped - the underground equivalents of zebras and ... http://brucefinley.com/environment/complex-world-of-soil-studied-by-colorado-state-university-scientists-read-more-complex-world-of-soil-studied-by-colorado-state-university-scientists/