| Colorado Kansas Seed Company, 401 East Beech Street, Lamar, Colorado |
| Table of Contents || Return to Map || Return to State Listing |
| EPA Region |
Location of facility | Type of facility | Amount of ore received (in tons) |
Did EPA visit the site? |
Were samples taken? |
Results of evaluation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 401 East Beech Street, Lamar, Colorado | Fertilizer and feed manufacturer | 322 | Yes-September 22, 2000 | No | According to an EPA database compiled from W.R. Grace shipping invoices, 322 tons of vermiculite ore from the Libby mine were shipped to this site between June 1969 and November 1970. When EPA and a representative of the local county health department visited the site, Colorado Mills Company was operating there. EPA found that the area surrounding the site was a mixture of residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. The facility consisted of four buildings--a grain storage building, a fertilizer building, a seed cleaning building, and an office building. According to representatives of Colorado Mills, the Colorado Kansas Seed Company was probably sold to Cargill, and then the facility became Temple Mills, and then Colorado Mills. Company representatives said the original buildings for the seed company had been torn down. None of the representatives knew about vermiculite or what the seed company might have used it for. The representatives recalled that Cargill had cleaned up the soils around the seed-cleaning building and installed a new asphalt pad. According to a Colorado Mills employee who had also worked at the seed company, the seed company did not receive anything by rail and the company produced fertilizer and some animal feed. This employee did not know anything about the seed company using vermiculite. EPA closely inspected the unpaved ground on the site and did not see any vermiculite. Because of the lack of visible contamination and the relatively low tonnages of vermiculite received, EPA determined no further action was needed. |
| GAO-09-6R |