DOWN-WIND-ER: A person living downwind of a nuclear test site, weapons plant or reactor, where the risk from fallout or radiation leaks is greatest.
The Rocky Flats Plant operated from 1952 until 1989 as part of the United States’ nationwide nuclear weapons complex. The Rocky Flats facility manufactured plutonium trigger mechanisms for nuclear weapons from various radioactive and hazardous materials. Manufacturing activities, accidental industrial fires and spills, support activities, and waste management practices contaminated soil, sediment, groundwater and surface water with hazardous chemicals and radioactive contaminants.
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Concerns About
the Public Health Risks
of Rocky Flats Contamination
A written public comment submitted to
The Colorado Board of Health
November 20, 2024
Dr. Mark Johnson, MD, MPH
Dr. Michael Ketterer, PhD
Shaunessy Kieng, RN, MPH
Jon Lipsky, MAS, FBI Retired
Dr. Deborah Segaloff, PhD
Randy Stafford
The Public Health Risk of Disturbing the Soil Along Indiana Street
for Jefferson Parkway Construction by Randy Stafford, Member
Jefferson Parkway Advisory Committee.
WHAT DO THE STUDIES SAY? by Randy Stafford
Special thanks to Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, PSR, Jon Lipsky, Randy Stafford and others who spoke out and got warning signs out the the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge.
In November 2016, Metropolitan State University released Preliminary Results of its Health Survey of Rocky Flats Downwinders. Data pertaining to illness was geo plotted on a map of the survey area. Two sourced maps of contamination from the plant in the form of radiation and fires were overlaid on the geo plotted data to identify possible correlation between illness and radiation exposure in the area. The results are anecdotal, compelling, non-conclusive.
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