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<br />DenverPost.com" News: Colorado and Denver <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />-r <br /> <br />SEARCH D~ <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />.....,w,lE'SUS <br />:::ElI!~. ~ <br />." <br />ihe D.nlJt:r it <br /> <br />Page 1 of 3 <br /> <br />352 <br /> <br />Itc-E-N.D1t I~ lq~ <br /> <br />c h r i 5 tV: 5 mar t r en tal 51 <br />5 ports iskl and linowboard rentals: <br />dick here <br /> <br />Receive valuable coupons <br />from Christy Sports <br /> <br />State sues Summitville builder, <br />4 former operators <br /> <br />By Ihll.Q..5t"!o. <br />Denver Post Environment Writer <br /> <br />@ Related articles <br /> <br />Jan. 3, 2001 - Colorado's attorney general <br />has sued the giant construction firm that built the cyanide- <br />based heap-leach mining operation at the Summitville Mine and <br />reached back to include four previous operators of the blighted <br />site. <br /> <br />The suit, the first filed this year In U,S. District Court in Denver, <br />seeks unspecified damages to compensate the state for <br />expected costs of dealing with the damage caused by acid <br />drainage from the Infamous gold mine high In the San Juan <br />Mountains, <br /> <br />"We believe the new defendants added significantly to the <br />pollution created by or at the Summltvllle Mine," Attorney <br />General Ken Salazar said Tuesday. <br /> <br />The five companies are Bechtel Corp., Sunoco, Atlantic <br />Rltchfleld, A,O. Smith Corp. and ASARCO Inc. <br /> <br />The new suit, which legal experts say Is likely to be <br />consolidated with other Summltvlfle lawsuits, was flied two <br />weeks after the state and the federal government settled their <br />case against financier Robert Friedland, a former owner of the <br />company that ran the mine In the mld- and late 19805. <br /> <br />Salazar said the money due the state under the terms of the <br />$27,5 million settlement with Friedland would reimburse the <br />state for past cleanup actions and future work at the 1,400- <br />acre site for the next 10 years. <br /> <br />~ The settlement Includes $5 million to help restore the Alamosa <br />_/ River. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The lawsuit filed against the five new defendants 15 designed to <br />Insulate state taxpayers against further cleanup costs In the <br />decades ahead, Salazar said. <br /> <br />Salazar said the state didn't specify the amount of damages it's <br />seeking because the final cost of the cleanup hasn't been <br />determined, <br /> <br />http://www.denverpost.comlnewslnewsOl03t.htm <br /> <br />1/3/2001 <br />