Simmons Plating Works, 393 Whitehall Street.
Date: 1952
Simmons was a former electroplating company that abandoned this site and left one hell of a mess. Approx. 305,000 gallons of hazardous waste was removed from this site. Of this, 240,000 gallons was electroplating sludge pumped from a 30 foot pit inside the building.
Yikes. The report also mentions that the waste was removed at a cost of $945,000 paid for by state taxpayers via Georgia Hazardous Waste Trust Fund.
GSU FILE: LBGPNS13-176a
TOP PHOTO COURTESY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DEPT, PULLEN LIBRARY, GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
Date: 04/04/04
