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A water-quality lab — Building 95 — was evacuated Monday at the Federal Center in Lakewood when a gallon can containing a potentially hazardous substance was found there.
Cindy Matthews, spokeswoman for the West Metro Fire Protection District, said about 130 employees were evacuated and sent home.
She said that because the container was discovered about 3 p.m., and most employees were ending their workday, it had little effect on operations.
The Jefferson County Bomb Squad was dispatched to the center to determine how to dispose of the material. Matthews said the evacuation was not connected to the evacuations and threatening letters received at Chase banks in Colorado and Oklahoma.
