1. The Storm Mountain Incident Larimer County, Colorado

2. Throughout 2003 and 2004, the Cedar Park Road Maintenance Corporation dumped thousands of gallons of chemicals on a National Forest road in the Roosevelt National Forest in Larimer County, Colorado.

3. These chemicals were applied on top of recycled asphalt with no precautions taken to prevent run-off from contaminating private property and public waterways.

4. The result was oily pools and streams of chemical laden run-off pouring onto private land and into the National Forest streams along the roadway.

5. This sludge, deposited on private land, is a result of chemical interactions occurring between the chemicals and the recycled asphalt leeching out toxic, heavy metals.

6. As the contamination was washed through homeowners’ lands and into the streams, the authorities sat idly by and watched taking no action to prevent this blatant pollution.

7. With local authorities unwilling to do so, private homeowners gathered samples for testing at a reputable environmental consulting laboratory.

8. The results of these test showed alarmingly high concentrations of toxic, heavy metals present in the run-off and sludge from the mixture on the roadway.

9. Arsenic, Barium, and Chromium were all confirmed to be present in the sludge from the road mixture.

10. Ed Schemm, Larimer County Health Department
Dale Miller, Larimer County Roads and Bridges
Tom Gonzales, Larimer County Health Department
Colorado Senator Steve Johnson
Doug Benevento, Colorado Dept of Health & Environment
Representative Marilyn Musgrave
The Larimer County Board of Commissioners
Linda Torgerson, National Forest Service
County, State, and Federal officials knew of the contamination but never once asked to see the test results. Instead they all hid behind an irrelevant study on de-icers.

11. And the destruction continues with each rain washing more contaminates through homeowners’ property leaving a path of death in it’s wake…
One can only ask,
WHY!!!