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slag dump reclamation
wduqnews.blogspot.com/2010/11/next-phase-of-9-mile-run-pr...
... looked more like a desert when i saw it ... loved the erosion and the leafless tree ... kinda looks like a cave ...
"Slag, a by-product of steel making, was dumped in the open throughout western Pennsylvania. The pile in question covers 238 acres along a creek known as Nine Mile Run in Pittsburgh's east end; it extends from the Squirrel Hill Tunnel to the Monongahela River shore. For over 90 years the site has represented the largest stretch of open riverfront land in the City. During the first three decades of this century elites and progressives in Pittsburgh attempted to conserve this area for public use. For the next seven decades it was a gruesome moonscape, buried under as much as 120 feet of industrial by-products and wastes. At the century's end, however, another effort began to restore the Run and make it available for public use. As a new draft of this land's history is now being prepared, the time is ripe to reconsider the previous drafts, and to draw some conclusions from the journey this parcel of land has experienced. " -Andrew S. McElwain Slag in the Park
... click here for a topographical map...
slag dump reclamation
wduqnews.blogspot.com/2010/11/next-phase-of-9-mile-run-pr...
... looked more like a desert when i saw it ... loved the erosion and the leafless tree ... kinda looks like a cave ...
"Slag, a by-product of steel making, was dumped in the open throughout western Pennsylvania. The pile in question covers 238 acres along a creek known as Nine Mile Run in Pittsburgh's east end; it extends from the Squirrel Hill Tunnel to the Monongahela River shore. For over 90 years the site has represented the largest stretch of open riverfront land in the City. During the first three decades of this century elites and progressives in Pittsburgh attempted to conserve this area for public use. For the next seven decades it was a gruesome moonscape, buried under as much as 120 feet of industrial by-products and wastes. At the century's end, however, another effort began to restore the Run and make it available for public use. As a new draft of this land's history is now being prepared, the time is ripe to reconsider the previous drafts, and to draw some conclusions from the journey this parcel of land has experienced. " -Andrew S. McElwain Slag in the Park
... click here for a topographical map...