FULL TIME Director – Upper Rio Grande Events and Recreation Complex We are seeking letters of interest and resumes for a full time director with an anticipated start date January 2011. In addition to the qualifications listed below, we seek a long term employee committed to making a difference in the community of Creede and enhancing [...]
$25,000 grant was awarded on February 3rd, 2010 for the development of conceptual design/schematics to advance the planning process of the complex.
The Outdoor Riding Arena was relocated last week, marking an exciting first step in the MCFA’s flexible masterplan. For the past two years the arena has been on the site’s “upper bench”, on Airport Roadway under the flight path. The Masterplan adopted by the Board has located all event facilities on the “middle bench” to [...]
Working with the EPA, Army Corps of Engineers, NRCS, American Geological Services, and Willow Creek Reclamation Committee, the MCFA developed an award-winning Voluntary Clean-up Plan with removal of contaminated soil that initiated in 2004. Clean up of 85% of the site was accomplished in the Fall of 2008. Almost two acres of wetlands was remediated. Eight [...]
The Fairgrounds site has now experienced its first growing season since the entire site went through a process of soil ‘remediation’. Due to the presence of heavy metals that resulted from Creede’s mining heritage, much of the site’s top layer of soil has required treatment to prevent the metals from joining the Willow Creek run-off. [...]
