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Oil company agrees to clean up historic lead contamination in settlement with small Colorado mining town
Colorado’s rich and troubled mining legacy can lead to tunnel blowouts, dead rivers and Superfund mandates, making a new cleanup settlement in the tiny southwestern town of Rico sound placid by comparison.   Rico and state officials Wednesday announced a complex deal with Atlantic Richfield Co., now a subsidiary of giant BP America, to finish digging lead-contaminated soil from yardsand paving over lead-tainted roadways over the next few years. The agreement allows Atlantic Richfield to avoid the imposition of an EPA-forced town cleanup, and Rico is assured the voluntary cleanup is paid for by the company and eases lingering worries about lead in the local soil.  “It’s a complex proje

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