[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, VOCs: Denver (CO) Federal Center

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Denver Federal Center workers demand answers about radioactive waste

Heidi Hemmat
KDVR TV-31 News (Denver, CO)
July 29, 2009

LAKEWOOD, Colo.


Would you want to dig up dirt at a former nuclear waste site? That's 
what construction crews at the Denver Federal Center site in Lakewood 
have been doing for the past year.

But what's worse, some workers tell FOX 31 that they never knew about 
the radioactive history until they saw our story on the news.

"We were told there was asbestos and lead at the site," says one worker 
who wants to remain anonymous.

He says when he and his co-workers learned that lead and asbestos were 
not the only danger, they became concerned for their health. Health 
department records show the site was a burial ground for nuclear waste 
and the soil is also contaminated with Uranium, Arsenic, Beryllium, and 
other toxic metals.

But that's not the only grounds for concern. Underneath it all, there is 
a plume of radioactive groundwater which is also laden with the 
cancer-causing chemical TCE.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-federal-center-waste-072809,0,5401565.story

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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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