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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.
Heartland Rural Electric Cooperative is leading the way and joining with 11 other Kansas rural electric cooperatives to invest in 20 Megawatts of solar power to be built across the state, and power 80,000 homes across rural Kansas.
Heartland’s portion of the project consists of two solar arrays of 1 Megawatt (MW) each. Preliminary work has already begun on the two tracts of land purchased by Heartland for the project. Groundbreaking was held on Tuesday, December 8. Construction should be completed by June of 2021.
One Heartland 1-MW array will be located in Crawford County, just west of Girard near Greenbush along Highway 47. The second Heartland 1-MW solar array will be built in Neosho County between Erie and Chanute along 160