Collinsville,
Oklahoma
March 18, 2017 Smelter Site Cleanup Followup |
I've been driving
by for many months and finally scheduled time to hike around for a few
photos of the EPA cleanup efforts at the site of one of two Collinsville's
(1911-1920's vintage) zinc smelter sites. On the EPA's list to cleanup
for many years the final "on-site containment" effort finally
began in June 2015
and completed sometime in 2016. The plan was to move all of the "contaminated"
surface soil on the site to a single location where it was "capped".
The area is still not open to the public and it's ownership and eventual
future use is unknown (to me). -- Ted Wright 3/22/2017 |
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The
following photos were taken from outside the property facing mostly
south or west
Saturday March 18, 2017 |
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The
Bailey Ranch water tower is several miles south in the background of
this shot.
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Wildlife
visitors to one of the ponds on the EPA site.
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Facing
north from near the RR tracks toward the Faith Fellowship Church.
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And just as an FYI -- After all of the cleanup efforts by the EPA (at the TMF site) & The Collinsvile Soil Program (community wide) ... there are still many large and small pieces of what look like "smelter slag" to me, along the railroad tracks in Collinsville? - Ted | |||||||
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