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| | Hammond
Youth Golf Academy
(Bairstow
Site)
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| 1938
Aerial
Photo |
1958 Aerial Photo Showing Slag Deposition |
The City of Hammond Indiana through its Redevelopment Commission (HRC) was faced with
the restoration of a 350 acre industrial slag dump site in north Hammond. The HRC turned to BASCOR to provide leadership, management and technical insight to the project.
BASCOR designed and installed a low permeability cap over the Phase I 40 acre Youth Golf Academy site using 60,000 cubic yards of
Bottom Ash found on the site. The cap met the Indiana Voluntary Remediation project guidelines, and provided a $1.5mm cost
savings, while recycling the material on site.
The Phase II 65 acre slag site was covered with an innovative low permeability material composed of
130,000 cubic yards
of biosolids material from the Hammond Sanitary District, 130,000 cubic yards of sand from the George Lake restoration
effort undertaken as part of this project, and
Lime Kiln Dust, a waste industrial product for stabilization. The project the
largest Brownfield restoration site in Indiana.
Recognition of the project includes being named as the best youth facility by Golf Digest, and an
invitation to the 2002 World Earth Summit in Johannesburg, SA where BASCOR
presented the site specifics with a 9 person delegation from Indiana. The
project also received the 2002 Indiana Governors Award for Environmental
Excellence. Monitored results are already showing the restoration efforts have
resulted in substantial improvements to the local eco-system and wildlife
habitat has been significantly restored.
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2003 Aerial
Photo Showing Completed Facility |
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