A gas manufacturing plant that closed in the 1930s left pollution that lasted to 2020. 5:28 pm, Dec. 16, 2020 ×
AUSTIN A prairie is blooming on a former hazardous waste site in Austin.
The gas manufacturing plant in Austin next to the Cedar River closed more than 85 years ago, but its environmental impact is still ongoing. However, this year, the site where it sat no longer looks like a hazardous waste site.
As recent as 2017, petroleum products left over from Austin Gas Co. were still seeping into the river from the river bed.
Volunteers cleaning up litter from the river that year said they saw what looked like motor oil bubbling into the water.