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A district judge scheduled Feb. 19 as the hearing date for Pitkin County Restaurant Alliance’s motion seeking injunctive relief to suspend the public health order that bans indoor dining. Another ruling Judge Anne Norrdin issued Thursday effectively nixed the alliance’s attempt to get an injunction hearing held as early as Friday, which means the Pitkin County Board of Health’s Red-level order will remain in place indefinitely. The county entered the Red phase Sunday following the board’s vote Jan. 11 made out of concern over a rise in an COVID-19 incidence rate that has been the state’s highest and among the 25 highest in America. ....
Aspen Journalism The Crystal River flows through the town of Marble just after its confluence with YuleCreek. Gunnison County, Pitkin County and local environmental groups want to see a marble mining company mitigate its illegal relocation of a creek by improving downstream riparian habitat. (Heather Sackett/Aspen Journalism) MARBLE The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has denied local groups’ request for a public hearing in the case of a marble quarry that violated the Clean Water Act. In a Dec. 28 letter to Pitkin County and others, Benjamin Wilson, project manager for the Army Corps’ Colorado West Section, said the agency does not intend to conduct a hearing or public meeting. ....
Aspen Journalism Vehicles and machinery sit outside the entrances to the marble galleries of the Pride of America Mine in January. Local governments and environmental groups want the quarry operators to undertake mitigation projects to compensate for moving a creek, which violated the Clean Water Act. Mike Stevens/EcoFlight Local governments and environmental groups don’t think a proposal submitted by a mining company goes far enough to restore the damage done when the company diverted a section of creek near Marble, and they are asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to hold a public hearing to address various concerns. ....