Saltville, Virginia: Difference between revisions

[[Image:View from Battle at Cedar Branch marker above Saltville.jpg|thumb|The View from Battle at Cedar Branch marker above Saltville.]]

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===Muck Dam collapse===

Saltville was the location of the infamous "Muck Dam" break on December 24, 1924, which allowed the release of a huge volume of liquid chemical waste (stored there by the [[Olin Corp.|Mathieson Alkali Company]]) into the north fork of the [[Holston River]] taking the lives of nineteen people who lived along the river.<ref>{{Cite news|title=The town that would not die|first=Ina Lee|last=Selden|work=[[The Christian Science Monitor]]|location=Boston, Mass|date=March 13, 1980}}</ref> The river remained polluted and virtually dead for several decades afterward.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mywebpages.comcast.net/5thuscc/AJC11011999.htm |title=The Atlanta Journal - Constitution Article on Dam |publisher=Mywebpages.comcast.net |access-date=2011-12-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060527013313/http://mywebpages.comcast.net/5thuscc/AJC11011999.htm |archive-date=2006-05-27 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/xp-15892 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120918070014/http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/xp-15892 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-09-18 |title=Roanoke Times Article on Dam |publisher=Roanoke.com |access-date=2011-12-07 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.epa.gov/reg3hwmd/super/sites/VAD003127578/index.htm |title=US EPA Superfund Site |publisher=Epa.gov |date=2006-06-28 |access-date=2011-12-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deq.state.va.us/waste/pdf/superfund/sal.pdf |title=VA Department Environmental Quality |format=PDF |access-date=2011-12-07}}</ref>