Word: dumps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This area along the city's industrial belt has one of the worst crime rates in the Boston area. Much of the vacant land at the Simplex site has been used as a dump. In addition, MIT has leased property to the state for drug clinics, halfway houses, mental health rehabilitation centers, and "wet drops" for alcoholics...
Elizabeth authorities mobilized the town's entire 250-man fire department as soon as the blaze began. Because dangerous nitric and picric acids, pesticides and plasticizers were stored at the burning dump, officials also closed public and private schools in both Elizabeth and Staten Island, and urged residents to stay at home and keep windows closed...
...week's end temperatures in the dump, an estimated 2,400° F during the height of the fire, were still too high for investigators to begin looking into what had caused the initial explosions. No sooner had the blaze been brought under control than New York officials began worrying about a similar site in Staten Island and another less than a mile from Shea Stadium in Queens. "We are," said one New York environmental official, "sitting on a chemical powder keg and watching the fuse burn...
...would rather keep it all at home," Reardon said. "But I know some of my coaches would dump on that...
...asbestos-like fibers. Company spokesmen continue to maintain that the new basin is "not necessary" and that it was built "only because we were told to do it." But of course the whole problem might have been avoided if the lake had never been viewed as a convenient dump in the first place...