Bayonne Bridge in New Jersey
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2012-08-14
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Between 1939 and 1942, during World War II, the space under the Bayonne Bridge's Staten Island approach became the Archer Daniels Midland Manhattan Project Storage Site, utilized for storing uranium.
The material was used in the nuclear weapons developed during the Manhattan Project, and about 2,007 barrels weighing 1,207 short tons were stored under the bridge.
Due to the long half-life and high radioactivity of unrefined uranium ore, the site became highly polluted and was later designated a federal Superfund site. Cleanup by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was scheduled for completion by the end of 2023
Original file name Bayonne Bridge A Landmark (1).jpg
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The Bayonne Bridge, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Kill Van Kull, Bayonne, Staten Island, Port Newark, Bayonne Bridge, Hudson County, Gateway, Gateway Region, New Jersey, NJ, Jersey, The Garden State
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