Sydney tar ponds

A detailed Summary of Sydney tar ponds

Upstream from the Sydney tar ponds, and the root of all it's problems over the past eighty years, is a 51 acre coke oven plant, steel plant and an industrial dump, The coke oven was home to a coal refinery which turned coal in to useful substances such as benzene, toluene, kerosene, naphthalene, and tar. Although the plant is now abandoned, these hazardous substances remain. Under the plant is 160 kilometers of busted pipes containing the "deadliest chemicals known to scientists" which regularly send flames through the poisonous soil that covers them to the outer world. Next to the coke oven is the steel plant which used byproducts of the coke ovens to produce steel for railways rails and such. Between the steel plant and the tar ponds is an area known as the "high dump," home to industrial wa

Some chemical reactions of Coke ovens Some chemical reactions of the Steel Plant

stes for over a hundred years, sadly dumping is still being done here. When it rains, florescent green puddles are seen spewing from the 76 meter high trash pile, amid the trash is an incinerator that spews mercury from it's stacks and a bright yellow pile of pure sulfur lies next to all this.

Http://www.lupinworks.com/lct/lct98/tarponds/history.htm

Atlantic Green Lane - Environment Canada, 2002

Tar Ponds History, Dr. Judith M. Newman, 2002

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