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Saw something at the old Trenton Steel site that made me stop
I was driving past the old Trenton Steel foundry site yesterday, the one that shut down about five years ago. They've got a chain link fence up, but a big section was bent back. I could see a pile of old ladle linings just sitting out in the open rain, no cover at all. The bricks were crumbling and the runoff was going right into a storm drain. It got me thinking about how much silica dust that must be putting out when it dries. Has anyone else seen old sites being left like this around their area?
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keithwalker10d ago
That runoff going straight into a storm drain is the real kicker. They just fenced it off and walked away, didn't they? All that crumbled lining is basically pure silica dust waiting to blow around. It's wild they can leave an industrial site like that with zero cleanup.
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juliaa2510d ago
Wow, I used to think fences were enough but @keithwalker is right, that's just a total walkaway. Seeing the runoff like that really changed my mind.
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