tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84312227531980570172024-03-08T10:53:49.094-07:00Opportunity Citizens Protection Association "OCPA""The folks that care"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-53220572815432518942014-10-17T22:15:00.003-06:002014-10-17T22:15:24.120-06:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Happy Birthday Beaver Dam School</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I can see these things ending up in the Pacific Ocean during a big spring runoff. Sort of look like piles of you know what.... </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">New recreation area in Opportunity </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">"LAKE TREFZGER" (swamp) </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Bring the jet skis down folks.. Lets have some fun...</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Awww, nice babbling brook. We'll see how babbling it is when Mother Nature decides she likes it the way she had it and sends a big spring runoff down the river.. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Silver Bow Creek? Hmm thought the Clark Fork didn't start until below the ponds? Looks like it is the Clark Fork when it goes through Opportunity...</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The so called engineers are calling this mtn of Sand, top soil.. Hope they plant something besides weeds this time... </span></b></div>
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<b>Another Cover Up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! </b></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-30608475605506931592012-04-27T00:23:00.003-06:002012-04-27T00:24:43.716-06:00The truth about Beaver Dam Park<br />
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politicians, they try to make themselves look like the best candidate for the
job. I have seen this, this weekend at the ribbon cutting ceremony at the new
park in Opportunity. Our shoe in CEO from Deer Lodge County stated she has been
trying to get this park built for the last twenty years and was very happy to
be part of it. This is not true, just a few years ago, the county and Connie
Daniels where dead set against building a park in Opportunity. They gave the
excuse of who is going to maintain the park, what are we going to do with the
old school building, the ground may be contaminated, we don’t have enough money
to buy the land and a variety of other reasons why this park should not be
built. At that time, the Anaconda school district was trying to decide the fate
of the old school in Opportunity. They decided to sell the property to the
highest bidder. The Opportunity Citizens Protection Association, which was
formed, to help the community understand the superfund and to inform the
citizens of Opportunity, of what was happening in and around their community as
far as superfund goes, took the initiative to try to stop the sale of the old
school grounds. They even went as far as to put up a 1000.00 bid on the
property, to try to save the last open space in Opportunity where people could
go to relax and have a picnic or whatever they choose. OCPA tried to convince
the Anaconda School board, that it would be for the best interest of the
county, to turn the property into a nice park for the citizens of Opportunity
and Deer Lodge County. The school board
wanted OCPA to present a plan for building a park on the property and if the
plan looked good enough, they would give it to the people of Deer Lodge County
to build a park. This was a step in the right direction but funding was going
to be a problem. Deer Lodge County was not going to spend a dime on the
project, so they told us if we wanted a park, we would have to come up with
funding to build it. OCPA negotiated with Atlantic Richfield Company to see if
they could help fund the project. Arco
told the members of the Opportunity Citizens Protection Association, that they
would donate 50 thousand towards the project. This money was tied up while ARCO
and Deer Lodge County negotiated a land swap.
Finally the money was released for the park but to this day, OCPA does
not know where the money was spent. Deer Lodge County told us that the 50G
would be used to buy the land. It wasn’t until the ribbon cutting ceremony,
that OCPA found out that the County, got
the whole thing for 10 dollars. Where did the other 49,990.00 go? Shortly after
this, Max Baucus and the Baucus fund, along with Montana Department of
Transportation, set aside 5 million dollars for parks and trails in the
Milltown area. . . The Missoula County Commissioners decided that since
Opportunity was going to receive the Tailings from Milltown, that they should
be entitled to half of the 5 million to build the park in Opportunity. This fund was a matching funds type of grant
that would require $1.00 to be sent in for every $7.00 received. So the
50 grand ARCO donated to the park, could be turned into 350,000.00 by matching
the money through the Baucus fund. Connie Daniels and Dan Villa came to one of
OCPA’s meetings and informed us of the news from Missoula County and told us
that 2.5 million would be used on our park. After the meeting, Dan Villa
informed us that we better have a bunch of bake sales if we planned on getting
any of the money. As it turned out, ALL of the trails and roadways built in the
ARCO waste repository behind Opportunity could be used for matching funds for
the project. Now that there was money involved, Deer Lodge County jumped right
on the band wagon. So instead of 2.5 million
dollars to be spent on the Opportunity Park, 1.2 million was spent. The county
told us that the rest of the money would go towards trails in and around
Anaconda. Opportunity was cheated out of over half the money allotted for our
Park. The park that was built is first class and everyone loves it but that
isn’t the point I am trying to make. We could have even had a nicer park if all
of the money like the 50 grand and 2.5 million would have been spent on the
park. It’s sad that things like this happen but we all need to fight for what
we believe in and not let a few politicians get in the way. Thank you Missoula
County and Senator Baucus, for the great Park in Opportunity, without you, it
would not have happened…</span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-51928388830526114612012-04-13T18:58:00.000-06:002012-04-13T18:58:47.264-06:00Ribbon cutting ceremony at Beaver Dam Park with Senator Max Baucus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-50773141973228479042012-04-13T18:42:00.002-06:002012-04-13T18:43:54.977-06:00Preparing for ribbon cutting ceremony at the park<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Serge picking up debris left over from construction operation at the park..</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-69504125915728565132012-04-13T18:37:00.003-06:002012-04-13T18:38:38.773-06:00First Easter egg hunt at our new park in Opportunity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-9528994619560669832011-08-07T00:03:00.000-06:002011-08-07T00:03:07.288-06:00Beaver Dam Park<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Check out the progress of our new park here: <a href="http://beaverdampark.blogspot.com/">Click here</a></b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-83113614067041848292011-03-24T22:55:00.001-06:002011-03-24T22:56:33.068-06:00Beaver Dam Park<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Well, it sounds like the soil tested at the new Park location in Opportunity, needs to be replaced. Seems as though it contains enough contaminated soil, to warrant clean up. Imagine that... I can't help but think of all of the children that played in that playground in all that contaminated soil. I wonder how many of them developed Cancer or some other disease caused from these contaminates? Something else I can't help but think about is, why does the school playground have so much contaminates on it and the residential properties in Opportunity doesn't? I am thinking that this should warrant all new testing in Opportunity. NOT the way is was done before with the mixing of samples and taking an average but test each and every soil sample taken. Are we all living in a community that is slowly killing us all? EPA, stand up to the plate and take charge of this project, the citizens of Opportunity are relying on you. If you don't do it, ARCo surely isn't..... This isn't over folks, it has just begun......</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">George--</span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-32732984373624204192011-03-24T22:34:00.000-06:002011-03-24T22:34:06.124-06:00The wind blew and the crap flew<span style="font-size: large;">These pictures where taken at 3PM March 10, 2011. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">THEY TRICKED US!!!!!!!!!!!!!! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We still have a contaminated dust problem!!!!!!</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Time for some re sampling in Opportunity as well.. </b></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-67758035378342412752010-12-18T22:55:00.002-07:002010-12-18T22:56:52.350-07:00Rehab setback<div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">ANACONDA - Contaminated sediment hauled from the former Milltown reservoir near Missoula to just west of Opportunity appears headed for cover.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">The roughly 2.2 million cubic yards of waste is stubborn to grow grass after treatment, disrupting original plans to use the dirt as a cap over existing mine tailings in the Atlantic Richfield repository.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">Instead, Arco and the Environmental Protection Agency may need to cap the toxic material with borrowed soil, a process that could take another two years.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">Project leaders detailed these developments at a heated public meeting Tuesday in the Anaconda courthouse, stirring frustration from residents and county officials.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jim Kuipers, county Superfund technical adviser, told The Montana Standard they had felt all but assured the Milltown sediment would grow vegetation when trains began hauling it over in 2007.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">High metallic, nitrate and salt content actually made it more harmful than what was already at the repository, Kuipers said.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">"We all drank the Kool-Aid that the sediment would grow," he said. "In the process, the possibility it would not work was underemphasized."</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">Anaconda no longer has any patience for experimentation, Kuipers said.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">"I feel this county is behaving stupendously in light of the fact that these things keep happening," he said.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">George Niland, spokesman for the Opportunity Citizens Protection Association, agreed the community is ready for development instead of setbacks.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">Niland told The Standard they are fed up, and hear the same answers every time.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">"We really thought this would be a great addition to that area," he said. "Turns out, we may be looking at more dust storms."</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">Arco has until March 31 to recommend soil capping or another plan to the EPA for approval. A final design would then be put together by the end of 2011 for work to begin in 2012.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">Estimates come in at $10 million for a six-inch soil cap, and $20 million for an 18-inch cap. Arco is responsible for the cost.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">EPA remedial project manager Charlie Coleman told The Standard they accounted for a contingent soil cap from the start, based on analytical data from previous testing.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">The EPA was optimistic they could treat the sediment and grow vegetation, Coleman said, despite high levels of metals such as arsenic and lead.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pyritic materials also created concern about the sediment's acidity in the future, he said.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">Still, the EPA had successfully treated similar soil in the past, and its contingency lent a course of action if treatment failed.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">"We knew we were working with some uncertainties," Coleman said. "I think what surprised us is how widespread the failure was."</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">Experts are still struggling to understand why the sediment won't grow vegetation. The sediment, which had been under about 30 feet of water at the reservoir, could have undergone unanticipated chemical reaction when it was brought above surface, Coleman said.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The inaccessibility of the material did create some (testing) limitations," he said. "We tried to form the best decision we could with the data we had at the time."</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">Had the plan worked, it would have brought new cover soil to an area where it is sparse.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">The sediment was already coming to Anaconda, Coleman said, and their only gamble was to see if they could make use of it in their design.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">The EPA is surprised and disappointed it has not worked, he said, and is dedicated to fixing the problem.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">"It is our obligation to get this right," he said.</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">- Reporter George Plaven may be reached via e-mail at <a href="mailto:george.plaven@lee.net">george.plaven@lee.net</a>.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-31030455305662567412010-10-31T22:14:00.004-06:002010-10-31T22:23:37.963-06:00From the Missoulian<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/TM49VWciRnI/AAAAAAAAEUA/ER3PkdMkaqs/s1600/4cca12bebcc71.image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/TM49VWciRnI/AAAAAAAAEUA/ER3PkdMkaqs/s320/4cca12bebcc71.image.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>OPPORTUNITY – <span style="color: white;">Milltown Reservoir’s exiled dirt won’t behave in its new home.</span></b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The 2.5 million cubic yards of fine-grained sediment dredged from the former reservoir east of Missoula has been spread 2 feet thick over more than 600 acres of wasteland between Anaconda and its satellite community of Opportunity. But it won’t grow grass.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“This would have been the first year we wanted to see vegetation everywhere,” said Charlie Coleman, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Anaconda site project manager. “But the vegetation never took off.”</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>That’s more and less of a problem than it sounds. Less, because the Milltown sediment doesn’t appear to be posing a human health hazard. It’s sticking where it belongs on top of historic smelter wastes, and doesn’t appear to contribute to the dust clouds that occasionally stampede across the Deer Lodge Valley.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>While also contaminated with poisonous levels of arsenic, lead and other heavy metals, the Milltown sediments are a lesser evil in a 5,000-acre Superfund site that holds a century’s accumulation of mine and smelter wastes piled up to 50 feet deep.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Still, there is a problem, because the Milltown sediment was supposed to grow a layer of grass and cap those mining deposits. Coleman submitted the EPA’s fourth five-year review of the Anaconda Smelter National Priority List Site this month, and the Milltown project was supposed to be a completed item. It wasn’t.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*****</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><b>Interstate 90 motorists may remember seeing lines</b> of rail cars being unloaded south of the freeway between the Warm Springs and Opportunity exits. Those cars were filled with sludge that built up behind Milltown Dam since it was built at the confluence of the Blackfoot and Clark Fork rivers in 1908.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Atlantic Richfield Co, or Arco, bore responsibility for cleaning up that legacy of mine and smelter waste. The problems stretched from the mines and smelters in Anaconda and Butte down the Clark Fork River to Milltown Dam.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The area between the highway and Anaconda’s iconic smelter smokestack was known as Opportunity Ponds because smelter workers sluiced their waste downhill into a series of settling ponds, known as Cells A, B, C and D. The “ponds” have long since dried up, leaving behind a sprawling apron of tailings thick with cadmium, zinc, arsenic, lead and other poisons.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>To fix this, Arco paid for and EPA managed years of effort to isolate the waste from surrounding ground and to cover it with a layer of safe soil and vegetation.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>On the eastern edge of the wasteland, a dozen huge dump trucks and excavators were still at work last week, gathering more clean dirt to put on the tailings. The borrow pit they’ve created is nearly 1,000 acres in size, and will be converted into a prairie pothole-style wetland when they’re finished.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Elsewhere on the 5,000-acre Opportunity Ponds waste management area, clean fill over the old tailings has produced tall fields of grass. As Coleman led a tour through the site, a herd of 20 antelope grazed in one of the more established areas.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“Arco realized if this (Milltown sediment) grew vegetation, they could kill two birds with one stone,” Coleman said.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Ironically, once the Milltown excavators dug down to the level of the original riverbed, that old soil sprouted seeds that had been buried a century ago. There was hope that the excavated material, while not exactly rich potting soil, would at least support some simple field grasses.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But that didn’t happen. Most of the Milltown caps are as barren as the last exposed Anaconda tailings cell – a 20-acre plot that looks like curdled yellow cement. The only things that will grow in either spot are a few spiky thistles and tumbleweeds.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*****</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><b>Much of the sludge behind Milltown Dam</b> got deposited there after a huge flood on the Clark Fork in 1908, which also left slickens of metal deposits along the river banks from Galen to Garrison. When Milltown Reservoir was found to be leaching arsenic into the local drinking water aquifer, EPA ordered a cleanup.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The early plans called for cleaning the gunk out of the reservoir and piling it nearby, possibly in the Bandmann Flats area between Bonner and East Missoula.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>That would have been fine with Opportunity resident Serge Myers. He said many of the little community’s 750 residents feel they’ve been the janitors for everyone else’s pollution for years.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“I used to be able to see the trees at Warm Springs,” Myers said of the four-mile expanse between the two towns. Since he moved to Opportunity in 1957 as a smelter worker, the C and D cells filled in and blocked the view. When the area was declared a Superfund site in 1983, it seems the problems got bigger rather than smaller.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“I think they should all be grateful we took the brunt of it,” Myers said. “It’s nice to see the river go clean, but I thought we should at least get the property taxes from those new homes they built at Bandmann.”</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Superfund technical adviser Jim Kuipers said dealing with one of the oldest – and largest – Superfund sites in the nation has been an exercise in patience.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“We’ve had great success downstream, with the dam removal and restoration work and new parks and trails,” Kuipers said. “Anaconda is still waiting for those things. We’re still 10 or 20 years away from being done up here.”</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Milltown grass problem shouldn’t last that long. No one’s sure why the grass won’t grow. It could be the soil chemistry is wrong, that decades of sitting under water left it too sterile to support plants. It could be a physical problem – the stuff is somewhere between a silt and a clay, which makes it tough for roots or water to penetrate.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Arco workers have set up a few test plots with added mulch, fertilizer and other additives to see if that helps. They’ve grown a few more grasses and weeds, but not enough to be successful.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“They have to make something work, or they have to go back to the drawing board,” said Chris Brick, science director for the Clark Fork Coalition, a nonprofit watchdog group monitoring the river restoration. “I don’t think we should experiment any more. They should cap it with clean soil and go on. We would advocate for getting the job done sooner than later.”</b></span></div><span style="color: #76a5af; font-size: small;"><b><span id="gallery-cutline"> </span></b></span> <span class="clear"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-89511655366747782692010-10-31T21:54:00.004-06:002010-10-31T21:56:45.596-06:00Mont. Superfund sediment cap won't grow vegetation<div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sediment contaminated with heavy metals and spread over 600 acres to cover even more dangerous mining waste at a Superfund site near Anaconda in western Montana appears unable to support vegetation.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The 2.5-million cubic yards of fine-grained sediment dredged from a former reservoir east of Missoula was spread 2 feet thick over a portion of a 5,000-acre Superfund site that holds mine and smelter wastes up to 50 feet deep.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Charlie Coleman of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency tells the Missoulian that this was the first year the agency expected to see the sediment covered with grass.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Officials say the sediment isn't posing a health hazard because it's covering the mine waste and doesn't appear to be blowing away as dust.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Chris Brick of the Clark Fork Coalition, a watchdog group, says the area should be capped with clean soil that will grow vegetation.</b></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-46253757052682456952010-10-31T21:32:00.000-06:002010-10-31T21:32:47.377-06:00Pictures of Beaver Dam School inside and out<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/TM40dVotr6I/AAAAAAAAESk/6bUBO97UFAU/s1600/P1020231.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/TM40dVotr6I/AAAAAAAAESk/6bUBO97UFAU/s320/P1020231.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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Most recently, it is a bull’s-eye for vandals.</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But rebirth is coming is in the vision of permanent recess. County plans to convert the 9.52-acre space into a park and Greenway trailhead are in motion after buying the land late last year from School District 10.</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Commissioners approved going out for bid at their Oct. 5 meeting, and planning director Connie Ternes-Daniels said work should be done by next year.</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“It’s been a long, arduous and challenging path to get there, but I feel we’re finally there,” Ternes-Daniels said. “This is going to be a huge asset for Opportunity.”</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Residents have long wanted a park at the Beaver Dam site, she said. Possibility became reality in 2005 when U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., secured a federal $5 million appropriation to Missoula and Anaconda-Deer Lodge counties affected by the Milltown Dam removal project.</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Anaconda received a little more than $2 million of that money, in consideration of the three million tons of contaminated soil hauled by train to the nearby Atlantic Richfield tailings ponds.</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><b>TOP PRIORITY</b></b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The commission in 2005 passed a resolution supporting Beaver Dam Park as the top priority of the appropriation, designated for transportation enhancements and including parks.</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Estimates come to about $1.3 million for the park, Ternes-Daniels said, which will feature a picnic area, new playground equipment, walking trail around the perimeter and access to the Greenway trail.</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“We really want this to be Opportunity’s park,” she said. “They’ve been very patient.”</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The historic Beaver Dam School building will also remain standing and mothballed, except for the south side addition put on sometime in the 1950s, to be secured by an eight-foot fence.</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Workers will remove asbestos from the school, Ternes-Daniels said, but complete renovations would add another $800,000 to the project cost.</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“The public overwhelmingly stated they wanted a park more than they wanted to fix the building,” she said.</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Engineering design evolved over a series of meetings with Opportunity residents last year at the Community Club, to discuss what they wanted to see at their park.</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The county hired WWC Engineering, of Helena, and project manager Shawn Higley said the meetings regularly drew between 20 and 30 people.</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“It was pretty compelling,” Higley said. “There really was no negativity toward the construction of a park.”</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Beaver Dam Park will provide a green-grass focal point for community and social gatherings, Higley said. It will also make the area more attractive.</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“The old school property was pretty run-down,” he said. “Aesthetically, this will clean up the area a great amount.”</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><b>BIDS ARE DUE</b></b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Construction bids are due by Nov. 8, and the contract calls for 150 working days to finish the job.</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Work will likely begin next season, though Higley said they may push the contractor to start securing the Beaver Dam School a bit earlier in the winter, depending on the weather.</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>District 4 Commissioner Robert Pierce said he is adamant about Beaver Dam Park, especially considering the kids of Opportunity.</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Kids wanting a trip to the park have had to travel into town, Pierce said. Now, they will have a place of their own.</b></span></div><div style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“That area hasn’t had anything for kids since it started, really,” he said. “(The park) is going to be a great shot in the arm for the local community.”</b></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/TMaBt6uWQJI/AAAAAAAAESQ/WUHocNL6VGw/s1600/4cc515bcca504.image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/TMaBt6uWQJI/AAAAAAAAESQ/WUHocNL6VGw/s320/4cc515bcca504.image.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="gallery-cutline">Anaconda-Deer Lodge County planning director Connie Ternes-Daniels and Commissioner Robert Pierce review plans for Beaver Dam Park at the site recently. The park is expected to be finished by next year. The historic Beaver Dam School, vacant since 1981, is in the background. </span></span> <span class="clear"></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-23982048540933305362010-10-14T21:50:00.006-06:002010-10-14T21:57:54.256-06:00Great News!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope.........<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/TLfPh2uM-AI/AAAAAAAAERI/HnRvNtAZkYw/s1600/Capture.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/TLfPh2uM-AI/AAAAAAAAERI/HnRvNtAZkYw/s400/Capture.JPG" width="267" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-67668833290496306642010-07-09T22:41:00.005-06:002010-07-09T22:50:34.644-06:00Nice Scenery<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 204, 51);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >"We have some of the most breath taking scenery Montana has to offer. It is nice to sit in the back yard and see the mountains and occasionally here a wild bird sing. In the not to near future, our scenic view is going to change, along with the singing bird sounds. . There will be 2 huge power lines to look at and you will hear a constant humming from the lines.. enclosed is some pictures of what it will look like.. This power isn't even for the citizens of Montana, it is going to be shipped out of state. Write your senator and tell him how displeased you are with the decision to run these 2 huge power lines through our scenic valley.</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">"</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/TDf7himSBrI/AAAAAAAAEAU/KYmDYuPb3Xs/s1600/P1110283.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/TDf7himSBrI/AAAAAAAAEAU/KYmDYuPb3Xs/s320/P1110283.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492134824243234482" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/TDf7hXiYi_I/AAAAAAAAEAM/qFGCFIrKveg/s1600/P1110277.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/TDf7hXiYi_I/AAAAAAAAEAM/qFGCFIrKveg/s320/P1110277.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492134821274094578" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/TDf7g5O4FhI/AAAAAAAAEAE/OoHpMdjuiJc/s1600/P1110276.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/TDf7g5O4FhI/AAAAAAAAEAE/OoHpMdjuiJc/s320/P1110276.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492134813139211794" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/TDf7gfC2zfI/AAAAAAAAD_8/zXmO7J8vz08/s1600/P1110275.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/TDf7gfC2zfI/AAAAAAAAD_8/zXmO7J8vz08/s320/P1110275.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492134806109474290" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/TDf7gH8NNjI/AAAAAAAAD_0/lXIYXpUQNn8/s1600/P1110273.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/TDf7gH8NNjI/AAAAAAAAD_0/lXIYXpUQNn8/s320/P1110273.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492134799907567154" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-471819210488353652010-05-16T00:25:00.008-06:002010-05-16T08:50:36.587-06:00May 3 Deja Vu<p style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102); font-family: georgia;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);">I thought these type of days where long behind us but this looks all too familiar. The people who live around the repository have been very lucky for the last 8 months. It has been wet and there have been no strong winds to speak of. These conditions have kept down the toxic dust clouds that have plagued the people who live around the area.. Tuesday, we experienced strong winds which are the norm for this time of year and guess what? We have yet another toxic dust cloud to help promote cancer, breathing illness’s and a number of other problems with our daily lives. When is this going to stop? We are getting damned sick of it. Blowing dirt is one thing but this is blowing right out of the ARCO/BP toxic repository. We have many citizens who are on oxygen in and around Toxitunity and they ALL tell me that when these dusts start to blow, they have to leave until they are over or they can’t breathe at all.. What gives EPA? I thought you were on our side? How many more years do we have to deal with this medically unsafe condition? 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<br /><b><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></b> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-83026097501280816532010-03-13T15:41:00.003-07:002010-03-13T15:49:15.803-07:00Putting it back<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/S5wVKO6oXGI/AAAAAAAADq4/HGX_EoLjCB8/s1600-h/0310101233a.jpg"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);font-size:130%;" >This piece of history, sat here at this location for years. It is the location of the Chamber of Commerce in Anaconda Mt. It was hauled away a few years ago and placed in another location, near the Copper King Express train that took people on a scenic tour of the Durant canyon area, between Butte and Anaconda. Crews this week are placing the old passenger car from The Butte Anaconda and Pacific railway, back. located at the Anaconda Chamber of Commerce once again..</span><br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/S5wVJVvHzCI/AAAAAAAADqw/prFfige2ZSI/s1600-h/0310101232b.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/S5wVJVvHzCI/AAAAAAAADqw/prFfige2ZSI/s400/0310101232b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448252899409251362" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/S5wVIxd7LgI/AAAAAAAADqo/CQe15EuZG7c/s1600-h/0310101232a.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/S5wVIxd7LgI/AAAAAAAADqo/CQe15EuZG7c/s400/0310101232a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448252889673444866" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/S5wVIhVqZEI/AAAAAAAADqg/UWOQrRrdnBQ/s1600-h/0310101231b.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/S5wVIhVqZEI/AAAAAAAADqg/UWOQrRrdnBQ/s400/0310101231b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448252885343822914" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/S5wVIGP21hI/AAAAAAAADqY/jYHtXtR4Gtg/s1600-h/0310101231b.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/S5wVIGP21hI/AAAAAAAADqY/jYHtXtR4Gtg/s400/0310101231b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448252878071715346" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/S5wVKO6oXGI/AAAAAAAADq4/HGX_EoLjCB8/s1600-h/0310101233a.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/S5wVKO6oXGI/AAAAAAAADq4/HGX_EoLjCB8/s400/0310101233a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448252914758343778" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-56918618634664181022009-11-12T23:13:00.001-07:002009-11-12T23:15:21.084-07:00Opportunity Meeting summary<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/Svz5ZsKeEII/AAAAAAAADXo/QXYwAJnKOU8/s1600-h/Acr1EB3_Page_1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/Svz5ZsKeEII/AAAAAAAADXo/QXYwAJnKOU8/s400/Acr1EB3_Page_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403467872684871810" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/Svz5ZJm69CI/AAAAAAAADXg/YAD7GrQdTe4/s1600-h/Acr1EB3_Page_2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/Svz5ZJm69CI/AAAAAAAADXg/YAD7GrQdTe4/s400/Acr1EB3_Page_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403467863408964642" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-70862185034860169732009-10-20T23:46:00.005-06:002009-10-21T00:33:47.349-06:00MEETING IN OPPORTUNITY NOV 2 AT 7PM<div style="text-align: center;"><a style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/St6q67F5nRI/AAAAAAAADUA/CHJAiL0WxjU/s1600-h/Picture.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 292px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/St6q67F5nRI/AAAAAAAADUA/CHJAiL0WxjU/s400/Picture.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394937332908006674" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);"></span><o:p></o:p></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/St6g6q1fU9I/AAAAAAAADTg/SnQi1NasVpE/s1600-h/Opportunity+Mtg+Ad-2.jpg"><br /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-6948037684985445752009-06-14T22:26:00.004-06:002009-06-14T22:46:16.219-06:00Lime Treatment Facility<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"> I know you have all seen them, but I am about to take you on a first hand tour of the Lime water treatment facility at the head end of the Warm Springs ponds..<br />For your viewing pleasure:</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXN5L7gg3I/AAAAAAAACJ8/vPCvlGtuhyA/s1600-h/P1080715.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXN5L7gg3I/AAAAAAAACJ8/vPCvlGtuhyA/s400/P1080715.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347406514910954354" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153); font-weight: bold;">Silo's while walking in...</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXPe8HPo5I/AAAAAAAACKE/vdYTYIqx7Mk/s1600-h/P1080716.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXPe8HPo5I/AAAAAAAACKE/vdYTYIqx7Mk/s400/P1080716.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347408263011869586" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXPvb3dOZI/AAAAAAAACKM/hO8GsI2QCYM/s1600-h/P1080704.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXPvb3dOZI/AAAAAAAACKM/hO8GsI2QCYM/s400/P1080704.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347408546413492626" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 255, 153);">Back side of facility...</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXQI1gzFqI/AAAAAAAACKU/l0DuKOdrYgA/s1600-h/P1080720.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXQI1gzFqI/AAAAAAAACKU/l0DuKOdrYgA/s400/P1080720.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347408982794507938" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 255, 153);">Lime dumping into river....</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXQk4_2KRI/AAAAAAAACKc/399XqHCRgaI/s1600-h/P1080719.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXQk4_2KRI/AAAAAAAACKc/399XqHCRgaI/s400/P1080719.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347409464766376210" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXQlPcE_0I/AAAAAAAACKk/beQT0zCAByg/s1600-h/P1080718.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXQlPcE_0I/AAAAAAAACKk/beQT0zCAByg/s400/P1080718.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347409470790369090" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXQlRKOsNI/AAAAAAAACKs/R514DL18hHs/s1600-h/P1080721.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXQlRKOsNI/AAAAAAAACKs/R514DL18hHs/s400/P1080721.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347409471252377810" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 255, 153);">Looks like a lot of lime for a supposedly clean silver bow creek..</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXRkrK871I/AAAAAAAACK0/05PsRoiKNM4/s1600-h/P1080723.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXRkrK871I/AAAAAAAACK0/05PsRoiKNM4/s400/P1080723.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347410560566488914" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 255, 153);">Grizzlies used to catch debris that floats down the river...</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXR5eBISSI/AAAAAAAACK8/G3GrtoKTwCI/s1600-h/P1080717.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXR5eBISSI/AAAAAAAACK8/G3GrtoKTwCI/s400/P1080717.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347410917812881698" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 255, 153);">Debris caught by grizzlies...</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-50764496888281697752009-06-12T23:59:00.003-06:002009-06-13T00:10:29.689-06:00To Atlantic Richfield Company:<span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" >Well either you have done a good job in keeping the dust down to a minimum or you have been lucky, due to the wet spring we have had. Either way, I want to say thank you, it has been nice to breath non contaminated air here in Opportunity. We don't miss those nasty dust storms we had in Jan of 2008. I have seen a couple of minor dust storms coming from the repository but not nearly as it has been. Thank you...</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">George Niland</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431222753198057017.post-19113818243946956282009-06-11T14:47:00.003-06:002009-06-14T23:05:30.533-06:00Nice overhead pictures of Beaver Dam School and surrounding area..<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjFtjmFNYNI/AAAAAAAACJk/k2x7X1QEhrU/s1600-h/P1030674.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjFtjmFNYNI/AAAAAAAACJk/k2x7X1QEhrU/s400/P1030674.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346174690950734034" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXWIGi__VI/AAAAAAAACLM/YklZozGOyQ0/s1600-h/P1030673_3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 312px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXWIGi__VI/AAAAAAAACLM/YklZozGOyQ0/s400/P1030673_3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347415567257042258" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXWS49MXCI/AAAAAAAACLs/TClHZcxAnTo/s1600-h/P1030672_3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXWS49MXCI/AAAAAAAACLs/TClHZcxAnTo/s400/P1030672_3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347415752587369506" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXWIVyl4gI/AAAAAAAACLU/oHWsQRvTAWY/s1600-h/P1030678_3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXWIVyl4gI/AAAAAAAACLU/oHWsQRvTAWY/s400/P1030678_3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347415571348972034" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXWIvLb1dI/AAAAAAAACLk/RFGCGKP8Rf0/s1600-h/P1030692_3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 285px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXWIvLb1dI/AAAAAAAACLk/RFGCGKP8Rf0/s400/P1030692_3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347415578164057554" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXWIVwkFwI/AAAAAAAACLc/j1rLZi2oKKA/s1600-h/P1030687_2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9f7tSRdmqM/SjXWIVwkFwI/AAAAAAAACLc/j1rLZi2oKKA/s400/P1030687_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347415571340465922" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);">Contributed by Mike Kustudia, coordinator for CFRTAC</span></span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0