| Beginning in 1911,
Collinsville became the home of two large zinc smelter businesses (luring
them here with cheap natural gas prices). 100 years ago, in February 1915,
"The Collinsville News" reported: "Collinsville has grown
to a population of over 5000 people. The smelter with its force of some
ten to fifteen hundred employees of course is a great help in the growth
of Collinsville."
The smelters and their employees were the major economic factor in Collinsville for just about a decade before they were mostly out of business in the early 1920s. Most of the downtown buildings (& brick streets) you still see in use today were built during that booming decade. The other legacy from that decade is the waste product from the smelting operation (still containing varying levels of arsenic, cadmium, and lead). The Feb. 26th, 2015, meeting addresses the former Tulsa Fuel & Manufacturing (TFM) smelter on the west side of the railroad which is an EPA superfund site. The Collinsville Soil Program addressed off site soil removal the past few years and also the smelter on the east side of the railroad tracks. |
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| Warning don't click
the following link unless you are prepared for a serious download of a
613 page pdf: link.
But it contains a lot more information on the "Tulsa Fuel & Manufacturing" Superfund site just 1.3 miles south of downtown Collinsville. |
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There
is also a copy of the information at The Collinsville Library.
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| The following are just a sample of the paragraphs that I browsed that caught my attention -- Ted Wright 2/7/2015 | ||||
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Waiving
a requirement (above) for a five foot ground water seperation ...
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Health
Risk Assessment ...
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Cost
savings by waiving requirement ...
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