[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, BIOTA: Rocky Mountain Arsenal (CO) visitors' center

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rocky Mountain Arsenal gets $7.4M wildlife center
Area was once a Superfund site that was the U.S. military's biggest 
chemical weapons factory

JUDITH KOHLER
Associated Press
Vail Daily (CO)
June 18, 2009

COMMERCE CITY, Colorado - Once a Superfund site that was the U.S. 
military's biggest chemical weapons factory, the Rocky Mountain Arsenal 
National Wildlife Refuge is getting a "green" visitor's center that will 
be an urban showpiece for the American West's wildlife system.

The refuge - where hawks swoop down for prey and bison roam over rolling 
hills - will receive $3.2 million in federal stimulus funds to help 
complete the center just 11 miles northeast of downtown Denver.

Powered by a wind turbine, solar panels and geothermal heat, the center 
will be the gateway to miles of prairie, woods and wetlands that is home 
to deer, coyotes and hundreds of bird species.

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Arsenal construction began in 1942 as the U.S. Army scrambled to match a 
chemical weapons threat from the Axis powers during World War II. It 
produced mustard gas, lewisite, chlorine gas and more than 100,000 tons 
of incendiary bombs such as those used on Tokyo in March 1945.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20090618/NEWS/906189992/1062

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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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