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Box 4

 Container

Contains 17 Results:

Maps and drawings, 1983-1985

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Located in Columbia County, the borough of Centralia has been the home to an underground mine fire since 1962, causing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to claim all properties under eminent domain in 1992. The population was reduced to very few families living in the borough as of 2010, even though the postal zip code was revoked in 2002. Although the fire began in 1962, it wasn't until 1979 that the problem was at its peak. In 1984, the U.S. Congress allocated funding to aid in...
Dates: 1983-1985

Department of Environmental Resources investigation, 1982-1983

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Investigation conducted by the law firm of Spiegel & McDiarmid, Washington, DC.

Dates: 1982-1983

Toxic gases research, 1982-1983

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Located in Columbia County, the borough of Centralia has been the home to an underground mine fire since 1962, causing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to claim all properties under eminent domain in 1992. The population was reduced to very few families living in the borough as of 2010, even though the postal zip code was revoked in 2002. Although the fire began in 1962, it wasn't until 1979 that the problem was at its peak. In 1984, the U.S. Congress allocated funding to aid in...
Dates: 1982-1983