Contact the Broomfield and Arvada City Council: Deny New $7.5M Request for Jefferson Parkway Did you know that the Jefferson Parkway Public Highway Authority has asked Arvada, Broomfield, and Jefferson County for $7,500,000 MORE MONEY for 2019? Did you know that the JPPHA has ALREADY spent $10,500,000 in taxpayer dollars from those municipalities since 2008, and now wants that much MORE? Resolutions to approve JPPHA’s additional 2019 funding request will come before the

In an article published in The Blue Line a few days ago I reported incorrect results from citizen sampling for plutonium in soil in the area at Rocky Flats proposed for construction of the Jefferson Parkway The sampling effort was initiated by Rocky Flats Nuclear Guardianship, a project of the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center. We wanted to determine whether highway construction would be likely to stir up a cloud of highly toxic plutonium-laden dust that would endange

Map of Rocky Flats site showing land retained by the Department of Energy (the central more contaminated part of the site) and land now managed by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) as the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge. The yellow strip down the eastern edge of the Refuge is the land FWS made available for construction of the Jefferson Parkway. The square plot of land at the southwest corner of the Refuge (shaded brown) is Section 16, slated to be transferred to Fish &

Rocky Flats and the Jefferson Parkway, by LeRoy Moore Published in The Blue Line: News, Analysis and Opinion for the Informed Boulder Resident, July 27, 2012 Parkway Proponents Pushing for Super Eminent Domain, by Liz Payton Published in The Blue Line: News, Analysis and Opinion for the Informed Boulder Resident, April 12, 2012 #JeffersonParkway

Please sign this petition online. STOP ROAD CONSTRUCTION AT SITE OF FORMER NUCLEAR BOMB PLANT ROCKY FLATS TO: SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR SALLY JEWELL, U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE DIRECTOR DANIEL M. ASHE, SENATOR MARK UDALL, SENATOR MICHAEL BENNET, CONGRESSMAN ED PERLMUTTER, CONGRESSMAN JARED POLIS Stop construction of the Jefferson Parkway, a toll road planned along the most contaminated edge of the site of a former nuclear weapons plant in Colorado. Rocky Flats remains conta

Published in The Boulder Stand, July 16, 2013 "Like the radioactive dust spread across Rocky Flats soil, politics over the Jefferson Parkway – which might be one of the most controversial building proposals of an American city’s beltway system – might never go away." Read the rest of the story here. #JeffersonParkway

A dozen reasons why the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge should remain closed to the public Prepared by LeRoy Moore, PhD, Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center, July 14, 2013 After completion of the “cleanup” of the 6,500-acre site of the defunct Rocky Flats nuclear bomb plant, about three-fourths of the site (roughly 7 square miles) was transferred from the Department of Energy to U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to operate as a wildlife refuge. DOE retained 1,300 more conta

CINQ Comments: Broomfield Mayor Pat Quinn, says it best…the more the merrier.” Environmental groups sue feds over proposed Jefferson Parkway land … Daily Camera … The Jefferson Parkway would nearly complete the beltway around the Denver… of the proposed 10-mile tollway that would connect Broomfield with Golden. A pair of environmental groups filed suit this week in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service over a land deal involving the Jefferson Parkway, add

Greetings, Know more about sprawl in Jefferson County, WATCH THIS FILM. No Water to Waste, is a brilliant documentary by local film makers Gabrielle Louise and Chris Garr that reveals the concentrated and organized effort by local politicians and developers to push sprawl in Jefferson County. In the name of money, pro-development forces want to take more water from the Colorado and Frasier Rivers, damaging these ecosystems, and expand Gross Dam. Developer’s plans would buil

Greetings – two important updates. 1. Apparently, negoitations between Golden and toll road proponents have failed. One source says negotiations broke down becasue of future plans to run a toll road through Golden. This is directly contrary to those who say the Jefferson toll road will have little affect on the Golden. To be clear, the plan is to run a highway through Golden eventually, apparenrly a possible toll road. One must wonder if the city will now join the Town of Sup