Old explosives still being found at Lakewood's Green Mountain park

The heavily-used William Frederick Hayden Park in the foothills of Green Mountain were bombarded with artillery shells from roughly 1935 through the end of World War II for Colorado National Guard war-time training exercises. The vast majority of mainly 75-millimeter shells exploded; a few didn't. Two generations later, a series of investigations on the north slopes of Green Mountain within the former Camp George West Artillery Range Munitions Response Site have found munitions debris and unexploded ordinance.

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