[CPEO-MEF] Lewisite at Rocky Mountain Arsenal (CO)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

"Dew of death" discovery shuts wildlife refuge
The chemical-warfare agent was found at a cleanup site adjacent to the 
Rocky Mountain Arsenal preserve.

By John Ingold
The Denver Post (CO)
November 1, 2007

Officials closed the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge to the 
public Thursday after revealing workers at an adjacent cleanup site had 
unearthed a potentially deadly chemical warfare agent.

The workers detected the agent, a mustard-gas-like chemical called 
lewisite, late Wednesday, the Colorado Department of Public Health and 
Environment said in a statement.

They were digging trenches as part of the cleanup effort of the 
arsenal's Superfund site, which is contained within the wildlife refuge 
but is separate from the refuge and not open to the public.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_7346675

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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>
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