May 30, 2008--Arsenal deal opens tap for cleanup (Denver Post)
Colorado's quarter-century-long legal tussle over groundwater pollution at the former Rocky Mountain Arsenal ended Thursday with the announcement of a historic $35 million settlement. Shell Oil Co. and the U.S. Army — which produced all manner of chemicals from 1942 to 1982 at the arsenal, northeast of downtown Denver — have agreed to pay the state $35 million in damages for polluting groundwater at the site, state Attorney General John Suthers said Thursday. The amount is the largest environmental settlement in state history, and it comes in addition to work the two organizations are doing to clean up leftover groundwater and other pollution. The settlement was 25 years in the making, but we believe it was very much worth the wait," Gov. Bill Ritter said at a news conference announcing the agreement.
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