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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 National Wildlife Refuge opened to the public on September 15, 2018. [97] In 2015 Rocky Mountain Downwinders was founded to study health effects in people who lived east of the facility while it was operational. The group set up an online health survey conducted by Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Mule deer along one of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Recreation Trails. The 28 federally designated National Recreation Trails in Colorado are: Apex National Recreation Trail [p] near Golden; Barr National Recreation Trail [c] between Manitou Springs and Pikes Peak; Bear Creek National Recreation Trail [c] near Ouray
The construction of Rocky Flats began in July 1951 and was a significant boon to the Colorado economy. [20] [21] Colorado state highways 72 and 93 were constructed to access the plant. [22] Direct government construction contracts to Colorado business were worth $26 million ($298 million in 2023) and employed 2,800 people. [23]
This is a list of Superfund sites in the U.S. State of Colorado designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term ...
A heavily armed man who was found dead at a Colorado mountaintop amusement park last year had researched mass shootings online, but investigators haven't determined why he amassed such an arsenal ...
The Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge is a 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 north of the city of Arvada .