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Rocky Mountain Arsenal’s toxic history is providing $10.15 million for a greener future.
The funding will help buy hundreds of acres to establish a regional, integrated greenway that links a network of open spaces in the northeast Denver area, as well as building buffers and restoring habitats.
The money, which comes from a 2008 settlement with polluters, is expected to attract another $31 million from other sources.
Expenditure of the money was approved by the Colorado Natural Resource Damages Trustees, made up of the state’s attorney general, and the executive directors of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Colorado Department of Natural Resources.
Shell Oil and the U.S. Army agreed in 2008 to a
