Fike Chemical
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fike-chemical-285-5330889
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Fike Chemical
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Fike Chemical is a former heavy chemical company and notorious superfund site in Nitro, West Virginia. Founded by Elmer Fike in 1971 in the buildings of a World War One government nitrocellulose plant, the 11-acre factory specialized in taking on jobs that larger chemical companies would ignore. To make this profitable, the company did no waste remediation, dumping hazardous chemicals into unmarked 55-gallon drums and open-pit lagoons on the site, next to the Kanawha River. The site was subject
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Former chemical company in the US
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fike_Chemical
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2023-08-27T11:33:00Z
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