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Former Residents Picnic At Colorado Superfund Site

The former uranium mining town of Uravan, Colo., was once declared too toxic for humans and razed to the ground. But that's not stopping former residents from gathering there for an annual picnic.
An empty field is all that remains of Uravan after cleanup wrapped in 2007.

On a late summer day in Uravan, Colo., a few dozen people gather under trees and canopies, dishing up pulled pork and baked beans. But the surroundings are hardly the lush setting of a typical picnic.

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