They Had To Demolish This Town After The Roads Were Paved With Dioxin

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On this day in 1982, the government informed the residents of Times Beach, Missouri that they would have to evacuate. The town had paved its own roads with dioxin, among the most toxic cancer-causing substances made by man.P

So what kind of town was Times Beach, and how did it end up paving its roads in dioxin?P

In an article published today, History explains that Times Beach was a small community that sprung up on a newspaper promotion in 1925 offering cheap land on the banks of the Meramec River with the purchase of a subscription to the St. Louis Times-Ledger. The town never quite blossomed as it was promised, but it ended up with over 2,000 residents.P

In 1972, the town didn't have the funds to properly pave their dusty dirt roads, so they struck up a deal with local waste hauler Russell Bliss to glue the dust to the ground with motor oil at a cost of six cents a gallon.P


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http://jalopnik.com/they-had-to-demolish-this-town-after-they-paved-the-roa-1488566724

[NoOneMan]

1. What could possibly go wrong

[2naSalit]

2. I remember that

The state/fed had to remove an Interstate Highway exit to the area too. It was kind of eerie driving by that place.

[Coyotl]

3. Green River, Utah, filled their town with uranium tailings!

http://clui.org/ludb/site/green-river-uranium-disposal-cell


Today, the radioactive material is a pyramid: