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Marshall Fire Rocky Flats Marshall Fire Rocky Flats

This video was published only days after the Marshall Fire. The Producer makes no reference to Rocky Flats. In making this video, Mr. Cannon was presumably unaware of our local history. How can we local Coloradan’s explain what he sees here?

Please watch:

  • Watching may be upsetting to people directly affected by the fire.

NuClub Boulder is your community voice for radiological readiness in Colorado.

Our mission is to correct course where it concerns toxic forms of contamination along the Front Range.

There is no room to deny that we are nuclear, still we must brace for the consequences.

The Rocky Flats Stewardship Council dissolves:

October 28 2024 Last Meeting Video 

September 9 2024 RFSC Meeting Video

August 29 2024 Executive Board Meeting Video

July 29 2024 Executive Board Meeting Video

June 3, 2024 RFSC Meeting Video A (Public Comment, Budget & independent facilitation) Meeting Packet

June 3, 2024 RFSC Meeting Video B (DOE Annual report for 2023)

May 13, 2024 Executive Board Meeting Video

May 8, 2024 Special Meeting 4 Video

April 1, 2024 RFSC Meeting Video

March 29, 2024 Special Meeting 3 Video

March 4, 2024 Special Meeting 2 Video

Feb 20, 2024 Special Meeting 1 Video

February 5th, 2024 RFSC Meeting     Video

Jan 8, 2024 Executive Board Meeting  Video

Overview presentation PDF

Boulder County is under attack from the past.

Boulder County is under attack from the past.

Last year, I realized the Rocky Flats Stewardship Council had removed all of the bodies of water in their Map of Member Governments, including the second largest body of water in the region: Marshall Lake. This map has been a tool used to explain the powers of the member governments since 2012.

After identifying this oversight, I started looking for regional maps that include Rocky Flats and Marshall Lake. At first, I couldn’t find many local maps that included both sites, so I made my own map, compiling two maps together. That’s when I realized the destructiveness of the Marshall Fire lines up shockingly well with an old institutional blind spot of the Rocky Flats Stewardship Council.

I believe Marshall Lake was chosen as a site to dump and hide 50-gallon drums of contaminated waste. These may have ignited in the wind, causing hotspots that reached incredible temperatures on the morning of the Marshall Fire. Simply stated: the science we have on what took place that day is incomplete.

*Special Thanks to the Rocky Flats Downwinders.

Without Marshall Lake:

With Marshall Lake/Marshall Fire:

We were not lucky. 

My goal:

I want NuClub Boulder to become an orienting space for people who are concerned about wildfires and radioactive emergencies along Colorado’s Front Range. My goal is to educate people about the history of Rocky Flats and to consult with neighboring governments about the environmental consequences of this history.

My posts will be of special interest to survivors of the Marshall Fire. Your health continues to be at risk. I hope my posts will serve as a warning to developers who aspire to monetize this contaminated part of Northern Colorado. I believe the Marshall Fire was not a county fire but a federal fire, fed by federal weapons production waste. The Marshall Fire was a National Disaster.

  • I am a Penguin Random House author. I have published two books. The first, The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power, is a memoir about my early cycling activism. The second, A Comedy & A Tragedy, is a memoir that explores my journey through education. Neither of these books make me uniquely qualified to be an expert on Colorado wildfire mitigation. I only hope my attention to Rocky Flats contamination can in the long-run improve the salience and health of a fragile region.

  • I was raised in a small house near Swanson Elementary School (6139 70th Street) between Ingalls Pl. and Ingalls Ct. My family left Colorado in 1980. I returned to Colorado holding a degree in theater and a degree in writing in 2007.

  • I have been a resident of the City of Boulder since 2007. I am an affordable housing and a sustainable transportation advocate.

  • DOE is not going to hide the facts about the connection between toxic waste and The Marshall Fire. Rather, it is going to pay the RFSC to suppress these connections.

  • Heavy metal fires do not require oxygen to burn. They can burn underground or in otherwise oxygen starved environments. Heavy metal fires can rekindle even when we think they are completely safe.

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