2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:36:06 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Parker Street dump, New Bedford, Massachusetts
 
Digging up the past
Toxic Legacy: Exploring the Parker Street dump

By BECKY W. EVANS

New Bedford Standard-Times (MA)
December 13, 2009

NEW BEDFORD - The Parker Street dump was a household name in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, especially for residents living in the growing West End neighborhood.

Richard Paul, 70, grew up on Vine Street and remembers riding his bike to the sprawling dump where he and friends would shoot rats and cans with their air rifles. Fires frequently broke out at the dump, sending thick, foul-smelling smoke through the neighborhood.

"The whole area, I tell you, was just a mess," said Paul. "Everybody brought trash there. There were no restrictions."

For decades, the city-owned dump, which covered more than 40 acres of wooded swamp land between Oak Grove Cemetery and Summit Street, served as an open dumping ground for everything from incinerated industrial waste to household garbage to rusty cars and refrigerators.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009912130315

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