I was thinking about Burt Street this week, under very unusual circumstances. I'm working with a company that is cleaning up lead-impacted yards in the eastern half of Omaha. One of the properties we are cleaning up right now is across the street from our Burt Street house (remember June's house)?
Most of the lead was deposited as wind-borne "fall-out" from the old Asarco lead smelting plant that was removed in the 90s and replaced by the Lewis & Clark Landing, a "passive" recreation area that covers other buried Asarco hazardous waste with an impermeable clay cap that prevents seepage of these wastes from their burial site.
I'm not aware of any other lead-impacted properties on Burt Street, so that is probably good news for us.
6.06.2008
Burt Street
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You have all the fun.
mmmmm.....impermeable clay cap........That is certainly interesting news, I remember June's house, she had a nice big yard. THat is pretty crazy that the smelting plant was depositing over the whole city like that, yikes!
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