Old Rifle Uranium Mill Site, Colorado

Former Union Carbide uranium mill site, now remediated. There are two former mill sites around Rifle, this, the Old Rifle site, which covers approximately 22 acres on the southeast side of town, and New Rifle site, which covers approximately 33 acres west of town, between the river and the Interstate. A third site, the Rifle Estes Gulch Disposal Site, built by the DOE for the disposal of material from the mill sites, is located six miles north of Rifle, on highway 13.