The legislative authority for Historic
American Engineering Record (HAER) is the 1935 Historic Sites Act (Public
Law 74-292) and the 1966 National Historic Preservation Act (Public Law
89-665), as amended in 1980 (Public Law 96-515).
The HAER program was founded in 1969 by the
American Society of Civil Engineers, the Library of Congress, and the
National Park Service after it became apparent that industrial and
engineering resources demanded a different sort of interdisciplinary
documentation approach from that applied to historic architecture. HAER sets out to capture vanishing industrial and engineering treasures
nationwide. In the quarter century since its founding, HAER has
accumulated documentation on over 4,500 historic industrial sites and
structures representing a varied cross section of America's industrial and
technological heritage. Each site is preserved on paper in written
historical reports, large format photographs, and sets of drawings to
capture the significant characteristics of the site. They are an
outstanding resource for the American public.
The following reports, photographs, and
drawings are the HAER record for the Rocky Flats Plant, covering its
history and significant contributions from 1953 to 1992. Much of
the early information came from current and former employees of the plant. Special thanks to Jack Weaver, Steve Cunningham, Tim McGrath, Kathy
Abeyta, Patrick Ervin, and Patricia Powell.
engineering-environmental Management,
Inc.
(e2M)
A set of 17 drawings and a
series of current and historic photographs illustrate the plant-overview
report. The drawings delineate the geographic location of the Rocky Flats
Plant; the Nuclear Weapons Complex; nuclear weapons production flow
diagrams; the Cold War time line; the Rocky Flats Plant historic district;
various production flow diagrams and building relationships; and health
and safety, laboratory, and security aspects of the plant. The photographs
depict the original construction, growth of the plant, the relationship of
the buildings, and the setting. The individual building reports and
photographs follow the plant photographs.
For specific information regarding processes, construction, and history of each
structure considered, and contributing resources of the Rocky Flats Plant
historic district, see the following
documents. |
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