{"id":2456041,"date":"2020-03-19T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/infante-puts-safety-first-in-basalt\/"},"modified":"2020-03-20T08:32:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T14:32:42","slug":"infante-puts-safety-first-in-basalt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/infante-puts-safety-first-in-basalt\/","title":{"rendered":"Infante puts safety first in Basalt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you are worried about fire and lead issues at the Basalt Shooting Range, there is one clear choice for mayor \u2014 Bill Infante. He is the only candidate talking about engaging higher authority, state DNR, and the governor, while continuing to work with Colorado Parks & Wildlife to best protect human health and safety.<\/p>\n

Infante said at the mayoral forum that fire and lead risks are \u201cvery legitimate concerns that all of you should take seriously.\u201d He noted, \u201cLooking at the role and function of us as elected officials, our principal function is to protect the safety and welfare of all of you.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are many environmental and fire safety issues at the range that need resolving. The Roaring Fork Valley Sportsmans Association is a private club that holds a 20-year, no-cost lease from CPW, for its own shooting range adjacent to CPW\u2019s. The lease specifies the club is not responsible for cleaning up the toxic lead that it has disbursed, for decades, onto taxpayer-owned land. RFVSA is contaminating a spring and its outflow with toxic lead shot and other shooting debris, without assuming any responsibility for cleaning it up, or for preventing the shooting debris from flowing downhill into Lake Christine and the Roaring Fork River as occurred during last summer\u2019s flash flood. That flood, it should be remembered, was exacerbated by the burn scar resulting from the Lake Christine Fire that started at the Basalt Shooting Range in July 2018.<\/p>\n

CPW, for years, has been willfully negligent, operating the range with blatant disregard to Basalt Fire Chief Scott Thompson\u2019s recommendation, after the 2012 wildfire that originated there, that an irrigated firebreak be implemented to mitigate the range\u2019s obvious fire risk. The 2018 Lake Christine Fire started near, and spread from, the area where the greenbelt was supposed to be installed.<\/p>\n

We need to elect a mayor who will put the health, safety and security of Basalt first, and engage with the governor and other local, regional and state officials to protect our town and valley \u2014 Infante is the right choice.<\/p>\n

Stacey Craft<\/p>\n

Basalt<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you are worried about fire and lead issues at the Basalt Shooting Range, there is one clear choice for mayor \u2014 Bill Infante. He is the only candidate talking about engaging higher authority, state DNR, and the governor, while continuing to work with Colorado Parks & Wildlife to best protect human health and safety. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2456041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 09:10:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456073,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456041\/revisions\/2456073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}