Asbestos site

No dust, please. AA240 Unusual signs.

Before anything else was on this site, it was just a ranch.

This site was a WWII Marine hospital and rehab base. When the base was closed it was occupied as the campus of Oregon Institute of Technology.

A development of homes here was abandoned in 2001 due to asbestos contamination in the soil. Afterward, a group of independent scientists analyzed the soil and found a trace - about the same as found in ordinary soil. A few residents stayed and there has never been a report of medical problems caused by asbestos.

This is a federal Superfund cleanup site. I think of it as our mini-Chernobyl. A WWII Marine hospital and rehab base was located here and closed right after the war was over. Then it was the first campus of Oregon Tech. Decades later, the barracks were demolished, parcels sold and big houses built. The asbestos in old roofing material was transferred to the soil and in 2001 the federal gov't bought out anyone who wanted to leave. Afterward, a group of independent scientists analyzed the soil and found a trace of asbestos - about the same as found in ordinary soil. A few residents stayed and there has never been a report of medical problems caused by asbestos.

A home abandoned in 2001 due to asbestos contamination in the soil. This area was a WWII Marine hospital and rehab base and when the barracks were demolished, the asbestos in roofing material was transferred to the soil. Months later, a group of independent scientists analyzed the soil and found a trace - about the same as found in ordinary soil. A few residents stayed and there has never been a report of medical problems caused by asbestos.

Next door to the pink house, this one was built with much lower quality materials.

Abandoned.