Whitewater News Archives

The call came in around 12:30am Tuesday morning. The Land's End Fire Department was sent to what they thought was a trailor fire on Reeder Mesa Road just outside of Whitewater.

Mesa County is on a federal shortlist to store thousands of metric tons of mercury.

U.S. Department of Energy officials this evening will showcase how mercury could safely be stored in the desert south of Whitewater.

BERNICE MUSSER greets visitors at the Delta County Historical Museum. Shea s volunteered at the museum since she moved to town 21 years ago.

A 19-year-old Whitewater man was booked into Mesa County Jail on Thursday on suspicion of attempting to steal beer by exiting through the emergency exit at Orchard Mesa Market, 176 29 Road.

When local government officials in the late 1980s agreed to a storage facility near Whitewater for radioactive tailings left over from the uranium boom, they must have feared, or at least suspected, the facility could become the proverbial nose of the camel under the tent.

There is a good bit of NIMBYism in all of us - the desire not to have anything dangerous or dirty built in our backyards.

It's easy to get lost in the views driving on Reeder Mesa Road - do so at your own peril.