The Cotter Uranium Mill in Fremont County closed in 2011, yet more than five million tons of toxic waste at the Superfund site hasn’t been cleaned up. Now, a U.S. legislator is getting involved.
Representative Brittany Pettersen wrote a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency with concerns about the slow cleanup process of the shuttered uranium mill. In the letter, she included multiple requests to improve the health and safety of the community.
She wants to upgrade existing infrastructure at the site, including signage, warning the public of the radioactive contamination around Cotter Mill, and improve fencing around the facility. Another request is for the deployment of air quality and radon level monitoring of air and water around the Superfund site.
The mill closed in 2011. Three years later, the EPA investigated the mill and the cleanup process began.
