fordroad(dot)net

Just a quick post to let everybody know that I’ve put a small site together to provide resources about the Ford Road Industrial Landfill here in Elyria. For those of you who live around here and don’t know anything about the site, here’s an excerpt from the home page:

“The Ford Road Landfill Site is a 15-acre inactive facility located on the Black River in Elyria, Ohio. The landfill was originally a ravine which has been filled to the same level as Ford Road. There are approximately 2500 people living within a 1-mile radius of the Site.

The landfill accepted municipal and various industrial wastes in drums and in bulk including, but not limited to, the following wastes: 700 tons of hazardous materials including heavy metals, other inorganic substances, and miscellaneous catalysts and insecticides from Harshaw Chemicals, a division of Gulf Oil Chemical Company; 3.3 million pounds of chemical wastes including organics, solvents, resins, oils and sludges, elastomers, acrylates, and latex emulsions from B.F. Goodrich Company’s Chemical Group; and 32,000 gallons of sludge per day from 1963 to 1970 from General Motors. Some of the wastes were burned on the Site.”

That being said, the site is extremely simple. There are some links to the Ford Road specific pages on the EPA website, some articles and things like that in the resources section, and a wonderful little javascript timeline that serves to put things in perspective as far as the responsible parties, the sheer quantities of their toxic disposal in the area, as well as the incredibly slow movement on a cleanup process that has now stretched the better part of three decades.

Enjoy.