[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Rocky Flats (CO) water contamination

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

DOE group to cover Rocky Flats changes
Broomfield among cities raising red flags about proposal

Joe Rubino
Broomfield Enterprise (CO)
November 27, 2010

The Department of Energy next month will host the first in a series of 
meetings designed to reconcile its planned modifications at Rocky Flats 
with concerns about water contamination being voiced by surrounding 
communities, including Broomfield.

Federal cleanup efforts costing nearly $7 billion were completed in 
October 2005 at Rocky Flats, a former nuclear weapons production plant. 
Since then, nearly 4,000 acres of the property have been transferred to 
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and have become the Rocky Flats Fish 
and Wildlife Refuge. The remaining 1,309 acres that were most heavily 
radiated during weapons production and 929 acres of active mining claims 
have remained under DOE control.

Nuclear bomb components were built at Rocky Flats until the plant was 
shut down in 1994. The 6,200-acre site is southwest of the intersection 
of Indiana Street and Colo. 128, just across the Broomfield-Jefferson 
County border.

Fears about radioactive material harming nearby residents have been an 
ongoing source of concern since the 1970s, when radioactive contaminants 
were found in Great Western Reservoir, which then supplied Broomfield's 
drinking water. Since the early 1990s, Broomfield has obtained water 
from Denver Water and from sources on the Western Slope that are stored 
in reservoirs in Larimer County.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.broomfieldenterprise.com/ci_16717973

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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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