The Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge opened four years ago, but environmental concerns continue to surface.
, claiming that the area is not safe for humans because of continued plutonium contamination.
On July 21, Betsy Smidinger, director of the EPA’s Superfund and Emergency Management Division, wrote a letter to Andrew Keim, Rocky Flats site manager for the U.S. Department of Energy, responding to the five-year plan for the refuge, completed in 2021 and released this year.
“It is well-documented that the former Rocky Flats Plant had numerous on-site fires and that fire prevention and suppression was a major concern,” Murl wrote in a second email to Surovchak. According to Laura Dixon, community involvement & communications manager for CDPHE’s Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Division, the formal results of the initial sampling were shared by DOE with the CDPHE in March 2020.
On August 31, Jon Lipsky, who led the June 1989 raid that halted production of nuclear triggers at Rocky Flats, and Michael Ketterer, an expert in plutonium, sent a letter to the DOE, detailing documents the two had gathered regarding the agency's response to PFAS at Rocky Flats. It discusses uses of PFAS outside of fire suppression, including Teflon equipment that is known to contain PFAS.
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