Combined Geophysical Investigation Techniques to Identify Buried Waste in an Uncontrolled Landfill at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Kentucky (open access)

Combined Geophysical Investigation Techniques to Identify Buried Waste in an Uncontrolled Landfill at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Kentucky

The primary objective of the investigation was to confirm the presence and determine the location of a cache of 30 to 60 buried 55-gallon drums that were allegedly dumped along the course of the pre-existing, northsouth diversion ditch (NSDD) adjacent to permitted landfills at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Kentucky. The ditch had been rerouted and was being filled and re-graded at the time of the alleged dumping. Historic information and interviews with individuals associated with alleged dumping activities indicated that the drums were dumped prior to the addition of other fill materials. In addition, materials alleged to have been dumped in the ditch, such as buried roofing materials, roof flashing, metal pins, tar substances, fly ash, and concrete rubble complicated data interpretation. Some clean fill materials have been placed over the site and graded. This is an environment that is extremely complicated in terms of past waste dumping activities, construction practices and miscellaneous landfill operations. The combination of site knowledge gained from interviews and research of existing site maps, variable frequency EM data, classical total magnetic field data and optimized GPR lead to success where a simpler less focused approach by other investigators using EM-31 and EM-61 electromagnetic methods …
Date: February 27, 2003
Creator: Miller, Peter T. & Starmer, R. John
System: The UNT Digital Library
"With Great Difficulty and Labour": The Emigration of the McIntosh Party of Creek Indians, 1827-1828 (open access)

"With Great Difficulty and Labour": The Emigration of the McIntosh Party of Creek Indians, 1827-1828

Article outlines the travails of the first Creek emigrants to the trans-Mississippi region that is now Oklahoma, whose journey preceded the removal of the Creek Nation.
Date: Winter 2007
Creator: Haveman, Christopher D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History