[CPEO-BIF] Former ASARCO smelter, Globeville, Denver, Colorado

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contaminated Globeville May Get Second Chance

Multi-Jurisdictional Agreement Moving Forward

Jaclyn Allen
KMGH TV-7 News (Denver, CO)
March 24, 2011


DENVER -- Denver's Globeville community is synonymous with  
contamination and blight, but now an ambitious, multi-jurisdictional  
plan to clean it up is moving forward.

Years after the ASARCO smelting plant shut down, the stigma of  
contamination still looms like a smokestack over Globeville, a  
neighborhood in north Denver and Adams County.

In the 80s, neighbors won a class action lawsuit against the plant  
and had their yards dug up to deal with high levels of lead and arsenic.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/27303143/detail.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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