[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Green Mountain [CO] will undergo full sweep for historic military munitions ..."

[Lenny Siegel]

Green Mountain will undergo full sweep for historic military munitions in 2024 after years of small searches
Signs near some of the trailheads warn visitors that "pieces of spent artillery shells from prior to World War II have been found in the park," including potentially "unexploded pieces of artillery."

By Stephanie Butzer
Denver 7 TV (CO)
October 3, 2023

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — More than a decade after historic military munitions were first found on Lakewood's Green Mountain, a comprehensive, in-depth sweep for any remaining items is planned for the spring of 2024. 

Initial assessments have already been done to remove munitions, but a more thorough evaluation is planned for sometime in the spring of 2024, according to Lt. Col. Brian Hunsaker, branch chief for cleanup and restoration at the National Guard Bureau in Arlington in Virginia.

Signs were initially installed at the northern trailheads to Green Mountain's William F. Hayden Park in 2010 after the first piece of military debris was found. The notices were updated in 2020 to notify visitors about the possibility of historic military artillery.

The signs warn, "Caution Historic Military Artillery Use Area" in capital red letters, and "Pieces of spent artillery shells from prior to WWII have been found in the park and this indicates a potential that unexploded pieces of artillery could be in the park."

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)