Resilient American Communities

Pueblo County
Colorado

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Pueblo County

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Bessemer Historical Society EPA grant for e-Bikes in Pueblo

The Bessemer Historical Society will purchase, distribute and monitor 100 electronic bicycles (e- bikes) to be distributed to residents within Pueblo, Colorado. Steelworks Center of the West will purchase, distribute, and monitor 100 Class 2 electronic bicycles (e-bikes) to members of underserved communities in Pueblo. Program participants’ eligibility will be determined using the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s annual income limit, including single parent households, veterans,individuals and college students not younger than 18 years old with incomes at or below 80% of area median income.

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NeighborWorks

NeighborWorks celebrated the groundbreaking of a new development Friday designed to help Pueblo address its intense housing crisis by providing more than 600 affordable housing units.

The subdivision will be the first in the nation using a shared equity model, thanks to approval by federal mortgage home loan corporation Freddie Mac just last week, said Ashleigh Winans, NeighborWorks Southern Colorado chief executive officer.

Safety Risk Reduction Completed

Pueblo Plant Team Completes Colorado Chemical Weapons Stockpile Destruction

U.S. ARMY PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT, Colo. – A stockpile of obsolete chemical weapons stored at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) since the 1950s has been safely eliminated.

The final round of the stockpile was safely destroyed June 22, said Walton Levi, site project manager, Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant.

Plant workers destroyed more than 780,000 mustard agent-filled projectiles and mortar rounds through three munitions destruction campaigns. A campaign refers to destruction of a particular type of chemical weapon. Destruction operations in Colorado began in March 2015, with more than 2,613 U.S. tons of chemical agent destroyed. One other chemical weapons stockpile site remains in Kentucky and is expected to finish destruction operations later this year.