The Arapaho Project Inc.

The Arapaho Project information

Project Progress Report

The awareness of Physicists looking for a site to place a deep underground experiment (a neutrino detector) is brought up at a meeting of Clear Creek County officials. Henderson Mine (owned by Phelps Dodge) is suggested as a possibility.

Contact is made and Professor Chang Kee Jung (Lead investigating Physicist) comes out to see the site. Local Colleges are contacted and brought into the project as well.

Positive correspondence between those involved brings about the need for local organization and The Arapaho Project Inc. is created.

As the concept expands, all parties agree on the locations validity as a competitor for the project. An additional project is added to the proposal. - DUSEL - an underground geology/geobiology/HEP lab.

Local political representatives are invited in as support continues to rise.

Funds are raised by The Arapaho Project and a core drill is made to assure the projects location is geologically sound. This proves valid and the information is added to a growing package of information.


Additional organizations are formed by the educational community to include Phelps Dodge (Henderson Mine) local communities, The Arapaho Project, political structures, and local Colleges. key personnel start to distill.

Mine visitations and discussions by various groups continues to rally support on all levels. Political proclaimations and letters of support are written.

The much broader international organization HUSEP is formed and an application for NSFs consideration of the project is created and submitted. Many other site contestants have entered the compitition as well.

The Henderson site is sellected by NSF as a finalist along with one other site - Homestake - which is in South Dakota. The two finalists are awarded grants to prepare formal applications for the final selection.