Bicycle Trail Ride Through The Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge Denver Colorado USA

Описание: I am taking a bicycle Ride Through The Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. Buffalo & lots of animals live on the refuge.
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From The Website: The U.S government acquired the Arsenal land in 1942 to manufacture chemical warfare agents, including mustard gas and incendiary munitions, for use in World War II. Following the war and through the early 1980s, the facilities continued to be used by the Army. From 1950 to 1952, the Army constructed the North Plants complex to manufacture the nerve agents VX and GB, (also called sarin). Rocket fuel was blended on-site for the Titan and Delta missile operations.
Private companies were encouraged to lease facilities beginning in the mid-1940s. Shell Oil Co. leased the property and manufactured agricultural pesticides in the South Plants complex from 1952 through 1982.
Manufacturing and waste disposal practices used during these years resulted in extensive soil, surface water, sediment, groundwater and structures contamination, damage to trees and vegetation, and death to wildlife. Solid and liquid chemical hazardous wastes were disposed of in trenches, burn pits and pooled in open basins covering wide areas. Spills occurred in the central processing areas, storage areas, and out of chemical sewers that existed underground.
Contaminated ground water was first discovered to have migrated off of the Arsenal in the mid-1950s when crop damage and affected livestock was noted on farms north of the Arsenal. At that time, liquid waste disposal methods were employed in an attempt to prevent the chemical contamination from spreading further including lining one of the basins with asphalt, and injection of the waste chemicals into a deep well, but these techniques were ultimately unsuccessful.
The Army and Shell Oil Co. began conducting detailed site investigations in the 1970s to define the extent of contamination. All manufacturing activities ended in 1982. The Rocky Mountain Arsenal was placed on the National Priorities List of Superfund sites in July 1987.

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