On Monday March 11th, the Westminster City Council will have a discussion regarding whether or not to continue their participation in the Rocky Mountain Greenway project. The Rocky Mountain Greenway is a proposed mountain biking trail, intended to encircle Rocky Flats, one of the most contaminated former nuclear weapons sites in the nation. Due to the public health risks, we are asking Westminster City Council to halt construction and withdraw from the Rocky Mountain Greenway.

Rocky Flats, which borders Boulder, Superior, Westminster, Arvada, Denver, and Golden, was once a nuclear weapons plant that produced 70,000 plutonium pits for nuclear bombs between 1952 and 1989. The site was shut down in 1989 after an FBI raid found severe environmental violations. To this day, the site remains heavily contaminated.

Full cleanup of the site was supposed to cost $36.6 billion and take 65 years, but the "partial cleanup" totaled $7 billion and ended in 2005. Recent studies show that the site is still widely contaminated with plutonium and other radioactive contaminants. Although the land at the center of Rocky Flats is still listed as an EPA Superfund site, city governments have been tasked (through a Federal Lands Access Program Grant) to support the construction of a mountain biking trail circling the perimeter of the most contaminated part of the nuclear site.

Due to public health concerns, the Town of Superior and Broomfield have already withdrawn from the project. Now we are asking Westminster City Council to join in solidarity.

Westminster City Council has some authority over the Indiana Street Overpass and its connection to Westminster Hills Open Space. This is the most contaminated portion of the trail and therefore the highest priority to halt construction.

Please send a 1-click letter to the Westminster City Council today, urging the Council to halt construction and withdraw from the Rocky Mountain Greenway.