Rudy,
Aspen asides being very lovely is home to the rich and famous including
Babs and many others. They did not want their exclusive nest upset and
fought and it did help knowing many influential folks in very high
places (think Aspen Institute). It is also the home of very large silver
mine tailings that along with many heavy metals include lead. Leadville,
just over the mountain from Aspen and home to average people sits on
mine tailings from the molybdenum mines. No problems there due to lead
leaching into the water supply. Another is Cripple Creek home to gold
mines and more tailings and there they use cyanide leaching ponds to
recover the gold, yummie but no ground water pollution after a hundred
years of mining. Check the Denver Post/Rocky Mountain News for the Aspen
article and the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph about Cripple Creek.
(I still have a home near Cripple Creek and lived in CO for decades)

There is a large open pit lead mine south of St. Louis that is now a
reservoir and you may want to look for that information also.

As a side note I read somewhere that some of the old Roman lead mines
and smelters in England and France have had no negative impact on the
people living there.

John Maxwell

>Technet:
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>There is an incredibly interesting story, which might help our cause in eliminating this lead issue, and I have a paper copy of this story, but do not have it electronically.   I offer to fax/mail to any interested parties.
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>The story was published in the Nov. 25 1991 issue of the New Yorker magazine, and it a story about Aspen Colorado.   Apparently Aspen is built on mine tailiings from the 1800's, and has extremely high lead levels in the soils.   This came to the attention of the EPA, who was planning to turn the town into a Superfund site, and make everyone leave... they did not understand who they were taking on.
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>The town filed suit to halt the EPA for a year, then they found a test lab, took some high lead soil samples, and ground up the soil, and mixed it with rat food.  They got two groups of rats, fed one the normal rat food, and the other the rat food laced with ground soil.  After a year, they sacrificed the rats (DON"T TELL PETA!)  and analyzed various parts of their bodies for lead...
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>There was no more lead in the group fed the ground up soils than in the control group!
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>The lead was not "bio-available", and was simply excreted.    The EPA packed up their tents, and got outta town...
>
>An amazing story...
>
>Rudy Sedlak
>RD Chemical Company
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