The Nation - News from Aug. 26, 1985

Plutonium concentrations higher than those found in New York City’s water supply last month have been routinely found in water systems of suburban Denver near the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, researchers say. But the levels are below government safety standards. The Colorado Department of Health reported that plutonium levels in water of Broomfield, Arvada, Boulder and Golden have been nearly three times as high, and Westminster levels nearly twice as high this year as the reading of 21 femtocuries taken in New York after an anonymous terrorist claimed to have contaminated the city’s water supply.