Personal narrative by Stan Kardasz, 2025

Format

Personal narrative

Contributor

Stan Kardasz

source

Bellefontaine Neighbors Then and Now Facebook group

Origin date

2025

2020–2029

Topic

1901–1981

Missouri Portland Cement Company

Environmental hazards

North County

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Certainteed Pipe lined the creek with broken asbestos pipe pieces broken during mfg/shipping. Roads in the area were always dust covered.

Later on the property was sold to a guy from St Louis City (don’t recall his name) who wanted to build an amusement style park there. If I’m not mistaken he died there in a construction accident.

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