Industrial Middens in Illinois: The Search for Historical Hazardous Wastes, 1870-1980 (1988)
Colten, Craig E. (Author)
IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 14
Issue: 2
Pages: 51-61
In addition to its traditional focus on the machinery and structures of our manufacturing past, industrial archeology can provide a useful service through the interpretation of past industrial waste disposal activities. Two case studies conducted in Illinois-in southeast Chicago and Rockford -- delimit the scope of the problem and the methods used to locate abandoned dumps and to document the types of wastes left in the environment. Based on a variety of records, historical geographies of the two industrial zones were prepared; they can be used to guide groundwater monitoring efforts.
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