It’s getting explosive between an Aurora developer and the United States Department of Defense.
Southshore Recovery Acquisition, LLC, a real estate investment company based in New York, filed a lawsuit against the DOD (or Department of War, if you’re weird) on Oct. 26 to force the department to pay for cleaning up unexploded bombs and unused munitions on a 105-acre plot of land in Arapahoe County. According to the complaint, Southshore has paid over $700,000 to clean up the old explosives.
The plot in the Southshore community in southeast Aurora was once part of the Lowry Bombing and Gunnery Range, which served as an active military range from 1937 to around 1963. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers then created a management plan for the range, detailing cleanup and which portions were considered “areas of concern” for live munitions. The Corps and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment have worked to clean up the site over the years, but old rounds are still found in the area every once in a while…