The Beckers bought the Boulder monastery’s mansion for $2.5 million in September 2021. And then they got sick. Upon inspection, they found “extremely dangerous levels of arsenic and unsafe le…
September 14, 2023 at 3:00 p.m.
Fifteen minutes northwest of downtown Boulder, at 500 Arroyo Chico Road, is one odd mansion. Built by an eccentric inventor and entrepreneur to be an off-the-grid monastery, it includes a 30-car garage, 7,000-square-foot deck, solar panels, cistern and greenhouse. Selby bought hundreds of cheap acres in Boulder’s Fourmile Canyon while a student at the University of Colorado, then sold or developed them for decades after. In the 1990s, he built the monastery at 500 Arroyo Chico over the outcries of an environmentalist group called Residents Against Inappropriate Development, or RAID, that he accused of using radical tactics.
In April 2023, when the Beckers had the water below their monastery mansion tested, the causes of their agony were found: “extremely dangerous levels of arsenic and unsafe levels of uranium,” they say. A filtration system alleviated some symptoms. Others remain.
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