Reply to a comment  Reply to this comment  goodolecountryboy
writes:  in response to secondcreek:  My main concern is why are
they are simply capping the site rather than removing the
hazardous chemicals in the soils from its years as Robert
Shaw/Fulton Bottoms? Seems like they can easily leak into
adjacent Third Creek-which they might be doing already-and onto
the Tennessee River.  Perhaps a better move would be to once and
for all replace the tainted soils and make the area into a
greenway, an extension of Tyson Park all the way south to the
river.  That plant started there during WWI, around 1917 or so
from what I can remember. The amount of hazardous material there
has to be massive. I would already bet a lot of it has already
migrated to Third Creek and beyond.  Also, the amount of
contaminated soil there would be mind boggling and sending it
off to be treated and/or incinerated would be prohibitively
expensive.