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Posts Tagged ‘jefferson parkway’

Plutonium & the Jefferson Parkway: Report on recent soil sampling at Rocky Flats

Plutonium & the Jefferson Parkway:  Report on recent soil sampling at Rocky Flats

Would building the Jefferson Parkway along the contaminated eastern or Indiana St. edge of the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge endanger public health by stirring up clouds of plutonium-laden dust? The Superfund “cleanup” completed in 2005 [...]

NYT | City of Golden Holds Firm Against Denver Beltway

NYT | City of Golden Holds Firm Against Denver Beltway

"Breathes there a soul who really, truly, loves a beltway? Maybe, but you are not likely to find one here in this little city in the Rocky Mountain foothills west of Denver.  For decades, this has been the community that said no, arguing through [...]

Getthefactsgolden.org | Golden challenges decision to provide federal refuge land for Jefferson Parkway

Getthefactsgolden.org | Golden challenges decision to provide federal refuge land for Jefferson Parkway

"The City of Golden on Jan. 5, 2012, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to halt the transfer of federal land for the construction of the proposed Jefferson [...]

Plutonium and the Jefferson Parkway: Another Look

Plutonium and the Jefferson Parkway:  Another Look

In an article published in the Blue Line a few days ago, I reported incorrect results from citizen sampling for plutonium in soil in the area at Rocky Flats proposed for construction of the Jefferson Parkway.  The sampling effort was initiated by [...]

Jefferson Parkway Inches Closer to Reality

Jefferson Parkway Inches Closer to Reality

It's been quite a week on the Jefferson Parkway front. Consider: Fish & Wildlife clears the way for the Jefferson Parkway Deciding against an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the Parkway/land-transfer matter, FWS (Fish and Wildlife) [...]

Audacious Happening at Rocky Flats

Audacious Happening at Rocky Flats

Last week two specialists hired by the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center collected 40+ samples at Rocky Flats, primarily along the eastern edge of  the site on land proposed for the privately financed Jefferson Parkway. Earlier studies showed [...]

PLAN-Boulder Takes on the Jefferson Parkway

PLAN-Boulder Takes on the Jefferson Parkway

PLAN-Boulder County sent the following letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today (July 28, 2011). PLAN-Boulder County is an organization of several hundred citizens established more than 50 years ago to advocate responsible [...]

Open Letter to the Boulder County Commissioners: Jefferson Parkway

Open Letter to the Boulder County Commissioners: Jefferson Parkway

I intended to be present yesterday, Tuesday, April 26, when you made the fateful decision that Boulder County Commissioners will no longer oppose the Jefferson Parkway. But I could find no information anywhere on the County Commissioners' web site [...]

Denver Post | Jeffco talks to Spanish firm about toll road

Denver Post | Jeffco talks to Spanish firm about toll road

Jefferson Parkway Public Highway Authority officials said Monday that they are talking to a Madrid-based construction firm Isolux Corsán about financing, building and operating the 10-mile toll road in Jefferson County.The authority has touted the [...]

Denver Post | Jefferson Parkway authority to buy Rocky Flats parcel

Denver Post | Jefferson Parkway authority to buy Rocky Flats parcel

Jefferson Parkway directors, who represent Arvada, Broomfield and Jefferson County, agreed to buy a roughly 3.5-mile long and 300-foot wide sliver of the wildlife refuge — about 100 acres — for $28,000 an acre, a total of $2.8 [...]

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