Tag: Reclamation
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EDITORIAL: A scar heals above the Springs
A Gazette report last month summarized the legacy of the Pikeview Quarry on the city’s northwest side with one simple yet accurate word: complicated. For decades, the “Scar Wars” that were fought over the quarry had cast a shadow over Colorado Springs, much like the barren blight upon the mountainside visible from much of the…
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Company ‘thrilled’ by reclamation at Colorado Springs quarry — but ‘not out of the woods yet’
The company in charge of returning a historic mining pit to nature in Colorado Springs’ northwest mountains is celebrating key progress in the yearslong job. Castle Aggregates is “thrilled” by the looks of Pikeview Quarry, said Jerry Schnabel, the company’s president and general manager. The months have seen the scar’s familiar red turn to the…