Crews Search Backyards For Leftover Weapons

By Kelly Werthmann
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)– Government contract crews checked out neighborhoods in the Green Mountain neighborhood in Jefferson County to determine if any leftover weapons are hiding underground.
The area is being investigated as part of the Department of Defense Munitions Response Program which began searches on the north slopes of Green Mountain in 2010.
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Green Mountain was used for military artillery training from about 1912 to the late 1930s before i