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Denver’s streets finally are free of radium-tainted asphalt, the city announced Wednesday.
The city’s departments of Environmental Health and Public Works completed the five-year cleanup project.
The radium waste was mixed into material used to pave roads throughout Denver over more than 80 years. The radium was the byproduct of the processing of radium in Denver in the early 1900s for medical purposes and to support wartime efforts.
The Denver Radium Site, consisting of 65 properties, was classified as a Superfund site in the 1970s and targeted for cleanup.
