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Elsie Begay, a 71-year-old Navajo woman from the Oljato region was the topic of a series of articles in The Los Angeles Times in 2006. [61] These articles were written by Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed (2010) author Judy Pasternak, whose work on these articles led to her book.
The company pumped water from the underground Navajo Aquifer for washing coal, and, until 2005, in a slurry pipeline operation to transport extracted coal 273 mi (439 km) to the Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin, Nevada. With the pipeline operating, Peabody pumped an average of 3 million gallons of water from the Navajo Aquifer every day. [3]
Location of El Paso County in Colorado. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in El Paso County, Colorado.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in El Paso County, Colorado, United States.
There were 50 coal mines in the Colorado Springs, mostly in the Rockrimmon and Cragmor - Colorado Springs Country Club area. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Mining in the Rockrimmon area occurred between 250 and 500 feet (76 and 152 m) below the surface, while the Cragmor mines were shallow, some only 30 feet (9.1 m) below the surface. [ 23 ]
OSM Regional Structure Map. The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) is a branch of the United States Department of the Interior.It is the federal agency entrusted with the implementation and enforcement of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA), which attached a per-ton fee to all extracted coal in order to fund an interest-accruing trust to be ...
The Navajo Unit consists of the Navajo Dam and the Navajo Lake reservoir. The dam impounds the San Juan River near Farmington, New Mexico. The dam was completed in 1963, and was actually the first of the units in the project to be completed. Unlike the subsequent dams, Navajo Dam did not have any power generating capacity when built.
The Navajo Mine is a surface coal mine owned and operated by Navajo Transitional Energy Company (NTEC) in New Mexico, United States, within the Navajo Nation. The mine is about 20.5 miles (33 km) southwest of Farmington, New Mexico. The Navajo Mine Railroad has 13.8 miles (22.2 km) of track between the Four Corners Generating Station and Navajo ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in the U.S. State of Colorado designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term ...