So we now go seamlessly from one of my favourite things to another of my favourite things.
This place is one of, in my eyes, the Northeastern USA's greatest urbex secrets. Not many people know it exists, and if they do they don't tend to go because of a few reasons - the first being it's part of a still active steelworks, the second being the abandoned parts are all owned by the government not the adjacent steelworks and lastly and perhaps mostly, it's because of the simply insane levels of pollutants the ground these buildings are sat on probably holds. Without giving too much away, this steelworks was no normal steelworks - during the 1950s it was a part of the Manhattan Project and processed thousands of tonnes of Uranium and Thorium-containing metals before returning to more regular production once the project wound up. There was apparently a clean up done a few decades ago but nobody knows quite how well it was performed and exactly what is left on site.
I found all this out after the explore, all my friend would tell me was that according to the locals the plant closed overnight in the 1980s after many of the workers went down with Benzene poisoning.
Yeah.
It's an amazing place, one of the top five industrial explores I have ever done. Imagine the decay of what was once the tiny awesome part of Pianoforte but a thousand times the size.
So far I haven't grown an extra limb either but if I do I will let people know...
Thanks for looking, loads more shots here https://www.flickr.com/photos/mookie427/albums/72157666359015803
This place is one of, in my eyes, the Northeastern USA's greatest urbex secrets. Not many people know it exists, and if they do they don't tend to go because of a few reasons - the first being it's part of a still active steelworks, the second being the abandoned parts are all owned by the government not the adjacent steelworks and lastly and perhaps mostly, it's because of the simply insane levels of pollutants the ground these buildings are sat on probably holds. Without giving too much away, this steelworks was no normal steelworks - during the 1950s it was a part of the Manhattan Project and processed thousands of tonnes of Uranium and Thorium-containing metals before returning to more regular production once the project wound up. There was apparently a clean up done a few decades ago but nobody knows quite how well it was performed and exactly what is left on site.
I found all this out after the explore, all my friend would tell me was that according to the locals the plant closed overnight in the 1980s after many of the workers went down with Benzene poisoning.
Yeah.
It's an amazing place, one of the top five industrial explores I have ever done. Imagine the decay of what was once the tiny awesome part of Pianoforte but a thousand times the size.
So far I haven't grown an extra limb either but if I do I will let people know...
Thanks for looking, loads more shots here https://www.flickr.com/photos/mookie427/albums/72157666359015803
