More than 2,000 residential properties are located in the Colorado Smelter Superfund site on Pueblo’s south side. The dust inside most of these homes has already been tested for lead and arsenic ...

Rachel Ellis, The Denver Post A trail off Santa Fe Avenue near Chem-Way Lawn Care leads to a pile of slag waste from the Colorado Smelter on the south side of Pueblo on Wednesday, July 29 ...

Right now, the EPA is cleaning up the former site of the U.S. Zinc Co. smelter in Blende and is considering a project at the former site of the Pueblo Smelting and Refining Co. In "Smelters of ...

On the south side of Pueblo an informal trail goes past no trespassing signs. Trees stand amidst the ruins of stacked rock walls – remnants of a smelter that extracted metal from ore by melting ...

A revitalization project more than a decade in the making is finally on the cusp of getting underway in three Pueblo neighborhoods near the Colorado Smelter Superfund site. The project ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday an increase in funding to clean up Pueblo’s Smelter ... funding for the cleanup at the Colorado Smelter site,” Gov.

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) - The site of the former Colorado Smelter in Pueblo officially became a Superfund site Thursday when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency added it to its National Priorities ...

Areas in the Colorado Smelter Superfund Site and near the incoming Pueblo County jail could be added to the Pueblo Urban Renewal Authority's (PURA) list of redevelopment projects. Jerry Pacheco ...

PUEBLO – The federal government is in the home stretch of completing a poisonous project in Pueblo. Crews will be back in the Colorado Smelter site area inspecting and cleaning properties this week.

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) - Federal officials are recommending that the area around an old smelter in Pueblo be designated as a Superfund site. The Colorado Smelter site is one of five industrial ...