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2. List of Superfund sites in Colorado - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Rocky Mountain Arsenal - Wikipedia

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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. [citation ...

4. Rocky Flats Plant - Wikipedia

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   The site of the former facility consists of two distinct areas: (1) the "Central Operable Unit" (including the former industrial area), which remains off-limits to the public as a CERCLA "Superfund" site, owned and managed by the U.S. Department of Energy, [13] and (2) the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, owned and managed by the U.S. Fish ...

5. Radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant

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   One of four example estimates of the plutonium (Pu-239) plume from the 1957 fire at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant. The Rocky Flats Plant, a former United States nuclear weapons production facility located about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Denver, caused radioactive (primarily plutonium, americium, and uranium) contamination within and outside its boundaries. [1]

6. Uranium mining in Colorado - Wikipedia

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   Hydrothermal uranium deposits are present through a widely spaced area in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, in Larimer, Boulder, Gilpin, Clear Creek, and Jefferson counties. The first uranium identified in the USA was pitchblende from the Wood gold mine at Central City, Colorado in 1871. [3]

7. Illegal dumping and homeless camping force Richland to close ...

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   The city removed recycling drop boxes from its north Richland recycling station this week, saying the ongoing problem of dumped furniture and other garbage as well as homeless camping rendered it ...