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Results of the Radiological Survey at the Firemen's Memorial Park and Fire Hall No. 2, Garibaldi Avenue and Kennedy Drive, Lodi, New Jersey (LJ066) (open access)

Results of the Radiological Survey at the Firemen's Memorial Park and Fire Hall No. 2, Garibaldi Avenue and Kennedy Drive, Lodi, New Jersey (LJ066)

Maywood Chemical Works (MCW) of Maywood, New Jersey, generated process wastes and residues associated with the production and refining of thorium and thorium compounds from monazite ores from 1916 to 1956. MCW supplied rare earth metals and thorium compounds to the Atomic Energy Commission and various other government agencies from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. Area residents used the sandlike waste from this thorium extraction process mixed with tea and cocoa leaves as mulch in their yards. Some of these contaminated wastes were also eroded from the site into Lodi Brook. At the request of the US Department of Energy (DOE), a group from Oak Ridge National Laboratory conducts investigative radiological surveys of properties in the vicinity of MCW to determine whether a property is contaminated with radioactive residues, principally {sup 232}Th, derived from the MCW site. The survey typically includes direct measurement of the gamma radiation levels and soil sampling for radionuclide analyses. The survey of this site, the Firemen's Memorial Park and Fire Hall 2, Garibaldi Avenue and Kennedy Drive, Lodi, New Jersey (LJ066) was conducted during 1987. Results of the survey demonstrated radionuclide concentrations in excess of the DOE Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program criteria. …
Date: August 1, 1989
Creator: Foley, R. D.; Floyd, L. M. & Crutcher, J. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Blast] (open access)

[News Script: Blast]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of police who says that ten persons are unaccounted for in an explosion and fire at Lodi, new jersey Chemical Plant.
Date: August 14, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Client Card: Mr. Bruce Blickman] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. Bruce Blickman]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Bruce Blickman, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces included: "Elephant" (18" x 14") and "Bear" (9.5" high).
Date: August 1970
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. C. Leeds to T. N. Carswell - August 5, 1964] (open access)

[Letter from D. C. Leeds to T. N. Carswell - August 5, 1964]

A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, from D. C. Leeds, Executive Service Sales, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N. J. 0763,2 dated August 5, 1964. An advisement that a Mr. William Ballew, of Fort Worth, Texas would contact Carswell regarding his recent inquiry.
Date: August 5, 1964
Creator: Leeds, D. C.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Ammonia] (open access)

[News Script: Ammonia]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about head-on collisions between a car and a truck.
Date: August 8, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bale Forming Apparatus (open access)

Bale Forming Apparatus

Patent for a bale forming apparatus. This invention is designed as an improvement to existing bale-forming apparatus.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Anderson, William E.; Dyer, Frank L. & Workum, Julius F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Erie Railroad (ERIE) #537

A photograph print showing the Erie RR, #1537, 4-4-2, E-5, at Hillsdale, NJ
Date: August 16, 1936
Creator: Gray, Theo. A.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History