The world was almost monochromatic after yesterday’s snow.
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The Weldon Spring Conservation Area is mostly empty land now but it once was home to several hundred families whose homes, farms, schools, and shops were scattered around the bluffs overlooking the Missouri River, just across from St. Louis County. Later, after the U.S. government kicked everyone out (using eminent domain laws), it became home to ammo bunkers, a chemical plant, a TNT factory, and a uranium enrichment plant — all of which landed this area on the EPA Superfund list.
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his was shot on a hike we took in the Busch Wildlife Conservation Area which is part of a 17,000+ acre tract of land that once held a plutonium enrichment plant…
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Just a couple miles off I-64, west of St. Louis, sits what looks like a concrete spaceship that landed in a pristine prairie. This is what’s left of what was once the largest explosives factory in the U.S. and also served as a uranium enrichment plant during the Cold War. When the government finally closed the facility in 1966, they simply walked away — leaving behind one of the most toxic spots in U.S. history.
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