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Among the polluted parts of the industrial site are those that include sludge basins, sand drying beds, soil, abandoned tanks — some of which “lack containment elements,’’ the EPA says.
These locations are remnants of Indiana’s Gas Boom in the mid-to-late 1800s, where factories and manufacturers flooded East Central Indiana cities for its abundance of natural gas. Many ...
Some common contaminated sites include abandoned warehouses, manufacturing facilities, processing plants and landfills. In response to growing concern over health and environmental risks posed by these contaminated sites, the 96th Congress established the Superfund program in 1980 to clean up these sites.
Numa and its abandoned suburb Martinstown, former home of the Numa Block Coal Company. Severs, south of Colfax camp of the Colfax Consolidated Coal Company, abandoned. Stone City, a town built by local limestone quarry businesses. Today an unincorporated community.
The site was largely abandoned between 1945 and 2007. In 2010, ThyssenKrupp established its new headquarters on the site and launched the Krupp District urban redevelopment project. Today, some of the Kruppstadt (Krupp city) buildings that survived have been repurposed to house university institutes and schools, another is the parking for an ...
Jul. 11—More abandoned coal mine sites will soon be reclaimed in Southwest Virginia and repurposed for economic development projects. The Virginia Department of Energy is getting a significant ...
The Brio Superfund site is a former industrial location in Harris County, Texas, at the intersection of Beamer Road and Dixie Farm Road, about 16 miles (26 km) southeast of downtown Houston and adjacent to the Dixie Oil Processors Superfund site. It is a federal Superfund site, although it was deleted from the National Priorities List in ...
The Raritan also flows through many of New Jersey’s 18,500 contaminated industrial sites, making it the twelfth most polluted river in U.S. Over 200 contaminated sites are adjacent or drain into the lower Raritan River, including abandoned industrial sites, Superfund sites, old landfills, dredge dumping areas and old army arsenals. Residents ...