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The Rocky Mountain Arsenal was a United States chemical weapons manufacturing center located in the Denver Metropolitan Area in Commerce City, Colorado. The site was completed December 1942, [ 1 ] operated by the United States Army throughout the later 20th century and was controversial among local residents until its closure in 1992.
The Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge is a 15,988-acre (24.981 sq mi) National Wildlife Refuge located adjacent to Denver and Commerce City, Colorado, in the United States. It is approximately 8 miles (13 km) northeast of downtown Denver .
The Rocky Flats Plant was a United States manufacturing complex that produced nuclear weapons parts in the western United States, near Denver, Colorado. [2]
The U.S. began to research safer disposal methods for chemical weapons in the 1970s, destroying several thousand tons of mustard gas by incineration at Rocky Mountain Arsenal and nearly 4,200 tons of nerve agent by chemical neutralization at Tooele Army Depot and Rocky Mountain Arsenal. [15]
Rocky Mountain Arsenal, June 30, 1942 – October 9, 1992; Pueblo Chemical Depot, since 1942; Granada War Relocation Center, August 1942 – October 15, 1945; Rocky Flats Plant, 1952–1992; Aspen Mountain Ski Area opens on December 14, 1946; United States Air Force Academy dedicated July 11, 1955; Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site ...
The Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge is 5,237-acre (21.19 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge in the United States, located approximately 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Denver, Colorado. The refuge is situated west of the cities of Broomfield and Westminster and situated north of the city of Arvada .
An interchange with Green Valley Ranch Boulevard provides access to the neighborhood of the same name. The East 56th Avenue interchange is the final exit along Peña Boulevard before it turns east near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, and reaches the interchange with Tower Road, which serves several airport hotels. [1]
Staff at the National Eagle Repository processing a bald eagle. The National Eagle Repository is operated and managed under the Office of Law Enforcement of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service located at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge outside of Denver, Colorado.