Trail Construction in Contaminated Refuge Must Stop, Judge Told

Environmental and health groups asked a federal judge to immediately halt construction of an 8-mile trail through “the most heavily plutonium contaminated portion” of Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge in Colorado.

Continuing construction could have “potentially lethal effects” on construction workers, residents, and visitors, Physicians for Social Responsibility and other groups said in their emergency motion for a preliminary injunction Wednesday.

The refuge is near the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Jefferson County, from which plutonium has migrated onto the refuge and neighboring properties. And the Greenway Project, which would connect two municipalities and provide greater access to ...