Arvada residents are fighting a planned RV park that borders Ralston Creek...and would be built on a former landfill. .
concluded that the area would “require considerable modification prior to development,” adding that the soil was not stable enough to support a deep foundation system and that waste from the landfill could still be found at soil depths of seven and a half to sixteen feet.
When residents asked the CDPHE for more current research, the department agreed to require the developer to conduct water sampling both upstream and downstream of the landfill site. The group also worked withOnce all the results are in, members of Friends of Ralston Creek Neighborhood hope to talk with the developer; their last contact was in March. According to McCarthy, Penwell seems reasonable and might consider putting a lower-impact project in the area.
Penwell says that the company will decide whether the project is viable by the end of July, but declines to offer further comment. The last project proposal from Carlson Land on file with the City of Arvada dates back to March 2021. While the city did not respond to a request for comment, notes made by indicate that they're concerned with the drainage plan as well as stream-bank stability, citing the dangers of possible flooding.
“If this was in the middle of the desert, we wouldn't be asking the same questions," notes McCarthy."But because this is so close to Ralston Creek…we don't know what's underneath that surface and how it could possibly affect the creek.", it has been defined as the free, independent voice of Denver, and we'd like to keep it that way. With local media under siege, it's more important than ever for us to rally support behind funding our local journalism.
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