Hmmmmmmmm. Oh What tangled webs we weave, when first we practice to deceive. Excerpt regarding our toxic situation from the below article: City Attorney Wynetta Massey came before Council this morning as well to discuss her budget. She said shes set aside $250,000 for legal defense work for 2015, with several specific cases in mind. One of those is the lawsuit filed by Kat Tudor and Don Goede with Smokebrush Foundation seeking compensation for possible contamination of the Smokebrush property next to a vacant lot at 25 Cimino Dr., the site of a gasification plant that left some nasty hydrocarbons behind. Those contaminants were disturbed during a demolition hired done by the city in early 2013. We featured this situation in a cover story in April 2013, (Chemical reactions in downtown Colorado Springs, April 24, 2013) Since then, a district judge ruled against the citys motion to dismiss, saying the city cannot hide behind governmental immunity in this case. That ruling is on appeal by the city. But Massey suggested the city might be getting out its checkbook. Environmental liability? The sky is the limit, she told Council. Assuming the city is found somehow environmentally liable, I have no idea what that amount would look like. We have to take environmental issues very seriously. She added, We had a feeling there might be environmental issues ... Now we’re trying to quantify it. If there’s an environmental issue, the city’s on the hook for it.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:03:11 +0000
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