Several former Denver Water workers have come forward to confess they were told to illegally dump asbestos as well as other poisonous chemicals twenty years ago during a site which is to turn a west corridor RTD FasTracks line as well as a new light rail station. One former employee, Joseph Pacheco, said which Denver Water forced him as well as his co-workers to keep quiet about it, yet they cant keep quiet anymore. They have been ill because of a contamination, as well as they fright which work crews will be unprotected to a dangerous rubbish when they proceed working upon a tyrannise line.
Denver Water issued a matter which it was a single of most companies which might have likely of rubbish in suitability with a regulations of a time in a past, yet which they did not have any responsibility for a landfill. They additionally stated which they have regularly followed all Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE) asbestos regulations.
While a single environmental investigator said which Denver Water should be responsible for a cleanup of a site, an RTD spokesperson stated that, yet they werent a ones who made a mess, they will clean it up with income allocated for FasTracks. FasTracks is funded by taxpayers.
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