It began small, as some wounds begin ー something like a scratch on Colorado Springs’ northern mountainside. But over 100 years the people below watched it fester, that scratch becoming a scar that would grow and grow along with a population that looked helplessly on, unable to stop the bleeding.
But now, finally, healing.
Colorado’s Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety has approved a years-long mission to restore nature at Pikeview Quarry, thus releasing the mine’s owning company from a permit dating to the 1970s. That’s when the company, now called Castle Aggregates, started mining limestone there at the site visible from Interstate 25 and beyond…