[CPEO-MEF] Rocky Flats cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

At the Foot of the Rockies, Cleaning a Radioactive Wasteland

By HILLARY ROSNER
New York Times
June 7, 2005

BOULDER, Colo., June 4 - On a tallgrass prairie mesa that seems to float 
midway between the Denver skyline and the craggy Flatiron foothills, the 
largest hazardous waste cleanup in American history is entering its 
final stages.

For more than three decades the mesa was home to Rocky Flats, a 
high-security, top-secret factory that made plutonium triggers for the 
government's nuclear arsenal. The plant was shut down in an F.B.I. raid 
in 1989, and the Energy Department's contractor, Rockwell International, 
pleaded guilty to illegal dumping of radioactive waste.

Today there are few remaining visual cues to the history of Rocky Flats. 
The site - at 6,266 acres, nearly half the size of Manhattan - is being 
turned into a wildlife refuge. When it opens, in 2008 at the earliest, 
the breezy meadow, populated by deer, hawks, jackrabbits, prairie dogs 
and coyotes, is to have public space for hiking, biking and horseback 
riding.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/07/science/earth/07flat.html?


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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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