Rocky Flats Site, Colorado, Tour – Central Avenue

Now we're at the west end of what used to be Central Avenue and I'm joined by Michelle Franke. Hi I'm Michelle Franke and I work for Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management and I'm the site manager for Rocky Flats. I'm here to help John today on the tour. Where we are is at the very west end of this road. As you can see right now there's no remnant of the former facilities but you can also see that some of these trees for example are still present. So these were large office buildings that were on this plateau over to the right and to my right your left and this was the security headquarters and there were labs, medical, a lung counting facility, dosimetry, here's the the fire the garage and the gas station and fire department, paint shop, other facilities all down this road which we'll be proceeding down on our tour but the point of this stop is really to show you what the facilities what the land looked like during the height of plant operations compared to what it is now post-closure.