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In the shadow of the mine: Life near Colorado’s most contaminated site
17 minutes Posted Jul 10, 2026 at 10:00 am.
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July 10, 2026 Colorado's largest Superfund site by area stretches 400 square miles across Gilpin and Clear Creek counties, just north of Boulder County. The site has been in remediation for nearly five decades, and a new scope of remediation is assessing the health risk of lead left behind by historic mining to residents. At Gilpin County's recent annual health fair, public health workers were testing residents' blood for lead. On today's episode, we sat down with Gilpin's Public Health di...