Opponents of a planned regional trail across Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge are pressing their public safety concerns at Westminster City Hall just two months before construction is set to be…
In this 2019 file photo, a sign hangs from a fence at a trailhead at the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge in Jefferson County. A group opposed to routing the Rocky Mountain Greenway trail through the refuge, which was once home to a nuclear weapons manufacturing facility, is still working to stop it. at Westminster City Hall just two months before construction is set to begin on a bridge and an underpass needed for the project.
“The toxicity of plutonium is incontrovertible,” Randy Stafford said during a Monday afternoon news conference. He has served on theand has monitored contamination from former nuclear weapons manufacturing facilities across the country. “It is morally irresponsible to encourage people to recreate there.
But Dave Abelson, the executive director of the Rocky Flats Stewardship Council, said Ketterer’s plutonium readings in April — ranging from 0.15 picocuries to 1.19 picocuries per gram of soil — were well below what the federal government considers hazardous. Boulder and Arvada, along with Jefferson and Boulder counties, are still matching contributors to the federal grant to fund the trail connections at Rocky Flats. Gloria Handyside, a Boulder County spokeswoman, said the county’s contribution to the project is about $93,000, and county commissioners could authorize that spending on the project in coming weeks.
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