2016 ACTION ALERT:  Prevent the Rocky Mountain Greenway

 

Please send a comment regarding the Rocky Mountain Greenway to elijah.henley@dot.gov.  Comments from the public will be accepted until November 30th.

 

The Department of Transportation is accepting comments from the public about the Rocky Mountain Greenway Feasibility Study.  

 

Also, please sign and share this petition to Keep Kids Off Rocky Flats.

 

We urge you in this action alert to send a comment citing evidence to prevent the Rocky Mountain Greenway and keep the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge closed to public recreation.  Please emphasize that the Greenway should not be built and the RFNWR should remain closed in the interest of public health and safety.  Here are some recommended sources of scientific information:

 

 

• DATA FROM AN INDEPENDENT SAMPLING STUDY SHOWS ELEVATED LEVELS OF PLUTONIUM ALONG INDIANA ST. EAST OF ROCKY FLATS 2012

Study conducted by Marco Kaltofen, MS, PE, (Civil, Mass.) Boston Chemical Data Corp.  January 20, 2012

 

Data from this study shows that plutonium exceeded reported background levels by two orders of magnitude at locations that match those noted in the Krey Hardy report along Indiana St.. (P. W. Krey and E. P. Hardy, 1970, “Plutonium in Soil Around the Rocky Flats Plant”) (Krey Hardy Map)

 

 

• THE ROCKY FLATS NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE IS SURROUNDING AN ACTIVE SUPERFUND SITE WITH ONGOING REMEDIATION OF UNCONTROLLED CONTAMINANTS

Reportable Conditions Table 

This data confirms that there are radioactive contaminants at Rocky Flats that are a risk to public health and safety.  Please refer to this Reportable Conditions Table that was compiled through referencing the regulatory contact records.  The reportable conditions listed on this table are elevated levels of contaminants that violate the institutional controls of the Rocky Flats Legacy Management Agreement.

 

Sampling for contaminants on the DOE Rocky Flats site is done at either a Point of Compliance (POC) at the site boundary, where DOE is penalized if the sample exceeds the state standard, or at an upstream Point of Evaluation (POE), where there is no penalty but steps must be taken to reduce any exceedance before the contaminant reaches the site boundary. 

 

“ReportableConditions” are occasions when results of sampling for a specific contaminant in surface water or groundwater at a  POE exceeds the agreed upon state standard, which is the legal limit for that particular contaminant on the site.

 

Exceedances at POEs: Here DOE must explain steps to correct the problem.

 

Scientific studies have shown that Plutonium migrates (reference to these studies are in Science Compromised in the Cleanup of Rocky Flats, and Mobilizing Pu Research), so it is logical that construction of a trail downwind of the COU1, an active superfund site, is a risk to public health and safety due to migration of uncontrolled contaminants.

 

 

• A 2016 HEALTH SURVEY SHOWS INSTANCES OF RARE TYPES OF CANCER DOWNWIND OF ROCKY FLATS

Letter to CDPHE 11/21/2016

 

 

• A 2016 CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT SETTLEMENT SET A COURT PRECEDENT THAT CONTAMINATION REMAINS EAST OF ROCKY FLATS 

Jury Verdict Form - Marilyn Cook v Dow Chemical and Rockwell

Please refer to the answers that the jury determined to questions such as:

 

Do you find that Dow intentionally undertook an activity or activities that in the usual course of events caused plutonium from Rocky Flats to be present on the Class Properties(seeInstructionNo.3.18)?

 

Yes 

 

Do you find it appears that this plutonium will continue to be present on the Class Properties indefinitely(seeInstructionNo.3.4)?

 

Yes 

 

 

Please refer to rockyflatsnuclearguardianship.org for additional study material and references.  

 

Thank you for your support, 

 

Rocky Flats Nuclear Guardianship