The Lowry Bombing Range
It's a hot property, the 50,000 acre site at the eastern edge of Aurora, Colorado, with toxic and radioactive hazards from war-related activities conducted there over the past half century. The sprawling, contaminated land is southeast of Denver. has been called the "Crown Jewel of the Front Range" by former Governor Bill Owens, a neoconservative who was a major supporter of intense residential and commercial development on the former range, where nuclear warhead-topped missiles in the early 1960's once stood at the ready to obliterate our designated enemy of the day, the former Soviet Union.
The Lowry Landfill
In subsequent years, and after the atomic missiles were removed, it became a toxic dumping grounds for the region's polluters, trying to get rid of their own wastes from sites like Rocky Flats, the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin), Coors and other major polluters. Even the Denver Post and Scripps-owned Rocky Mountain News dumped their toxic printing inks and solvents there. No wonder you haven't read anything in those papers about the controversial deal to flush it all offsite and back into the public domain.
What's in it?
Read all about it. The EPA denies it, but the site's loaded with plutonium and scores of other nuclear wastes. The cover-up over this site continues.
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Eileen Welsome wrote a three-part series, "Dirty Secrets," in April and May, 2001. It's a must read for anyone who wants to understand the cover-up, and what's at stake for public health and our environment. The hush-hush story that Denver area residents have been kept in the dark about by our major media was named by Project Censored by one of the top 10 stories in the entire United States for the year 2000 that warranted intense media scrutiny, but was covered up.
"Dirty Secrets"
Part 1: "The Lowdown on Lowry"
Part 2: "A Matter of Trust"
Part 3: "Board Games"
RMPJC is investigating this dirty deal, along with other organizations including the Student Environmental Action Coalition and Dead Ducks Society, including suspected impacts that warrant independent investigation and alert citizen oversight for protective action.
Depleted Uranium Test Grounds to Become New Subdivision?
In November, 2006, RMPJC's Nuclear Nexus Project, testified to the Colorado State land Board denoucing their plan to allow one of six prospective developers to build a mixed-use subdivision on an area that was once used for top secret depleted uranium test firings, and disposal, among other ordnance activities under contract to the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy. The test firing range was on an area known as the "Lowry Training Annex." While the remainder of the Lowry Bombing Range had ceased activities related to the military, this one section remained active and under top secret status until it closed in 1994.
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