2006 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 1 Aug 2006 22:10:54 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Rocky Mountain Arsenal - 7360 acres to wildlife refuge
 
Superfund Cleanup Site Joining Part Of Wildlife Refuge

Associated Press
The Denver Channel (ABC 7 News)
August 1, 2006

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Monday removed 7,360 acres of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal from its Superfund list of heavily polluted areas, clearing the way for large part of the former chemical weapons plant property to become a national wildlife refuge.

Cleanup on the 11.5 square miles of land known as the Internal Parcel included the removal or destruction of 196 structures and closure of 27 groundwater wells that posed a risk of contamination, EPA officials said Monday.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/9606347/detail.html

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