Apr 3, 2017 · Three years previously, the town had been home to 2,242 residents, who were all suddenly evacuated when it was revealed that their dirt roads had all been sprayed down with a mixture containing...

Nov 13, 2009 · In 1972, town officials thought they’d found a perfect solution to the problem: they paid local waste-hauler Russell Bliss just 6 cents per gallon to spray its roads with oil, theoretically...

In 1972, Times Beach hired Bliss to oil its 23 miles of dirt roads (due to lack of funding, Times Beach was unable to pave its roads). For $2,400, Bliss sprayed approximately 160,000 gallons of waste oil in Times Beach over a period of four years. [15]

Dec 23, 2013 · In 1972, the town didn't have the funds to properly pave their dusty dirt roads, so they struck up a deal with local waste hauler Russell Bliss to glue the dust to the ground with motor oil...

Nov 3, 2024 · Nearly 40 years ago, an individual was paid to spray material on the roads to suppress the dust in this small Midwest town. What the town didn’t know was that he was spraying those roads with a mixture of the highly toxic chemical compound, dioxin, and waste oil.

Sep 10, 2017 · Russell Bliss’ job was to spray the waste oil he collected from various businesses on the streets of Times Beach. This is a common practice on gravel roads, and it seemed to make sense at the...

Dec 1, 2020 · For four years, from 1972 to 1976, the company sprayed the used oil on Times Beach’s roads. Unknown to the town and its residents, however, the company had mixed other industrial waste into the oil.

The Times Beach dioxin disaster started in 1972 when the town hired a contractor named Russell Bliss to spray oil on the town’s gravel roads to keep dust down. Spraying oil on gravel roads to reduce dust was a common practice at the time.

A byproduct of Agent Orange is tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, commonly known as the toxic chemical dioxin. Many roads were sprayed in Times Beach between 1971 and 1976, and the elexir was sold to horse farms, churches and small towns.

Dec 19, 2019 · In 1972, the town contracted to have the gravel roads sprayed with oil, which it turned out contained dioxin. Over the next four years, 160,000 thousand gallons of toxic oil were sprayed in the town. A leaked document in 1982 identifying dioxin contamination across Missouri provoked the EPA to act.