Westminster City Council meeting explores next steps for Rocky Mountain Greenway Trail July 16, 2024

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“It is a very serious matter,” said Dr. Debora Segaloff, a retired professor of molecular physiology and biophysics at the University of Iowa, and Colorado chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility. “We were there until midnight.”

For Segaloff, the concern started after she moved to Colorado in 2018.

“We moved to a home that was, turns out to be one and a half miles from the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge,” Segaloff said. “We became very concerned and we moved. We put our home on the market. We sold it at a loss and moved to Niwot.”

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