{"id":234,"date":"2018-09-09T14:16:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T18:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/historicenvironments\/?p=234"},"modified":"2018-09-09T14:16:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T18:16:32","slug":"nuclear-lake-hiking-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/historicenvironments\/2018\/09\/09\/nuclear-lake-hiking-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Lake Hiking Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pawling Lake Goes Nuclear<\/h3>\n

The Nuclear Lake earned its moniker after a secret facility owned by United Nuclear Corp that was placed by a lake in Pawling, New York experienced a chemical explosion that blew out two windows and released an unknown amount of weapons grade plutonium into the adjacent body of water and woods.<\/p>\n

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(Rock wall near North edge of lake)<\/p>\n

While almost all evidence of the chemical factory has been erased to any that were not aware of its presence before their arrival, remnants of former property owners’ rock structures are still visible today to any that walk the trail. At various points near the path, walls of rock of varying height can be seen stretching their way across the forest floor. These walls served multiple purposes ranging from marking property lines to penning in livestock.<\/p>\n

United Nuclear Corp was licensed by the government to experiment with uranium and plutonium for bombs starting in 1958 at the Nuclear Lake facility and did so up until the incident the incident in December of 1972. While the area has supposedly been well cleaned of radiation to the point that soil samples by the trail show similar levels to non-affected areas, the environmental effects and state of the water itself is unknown.<\/p>\n

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(Lake’s edge right next to old United Nuclear Corp building)<\/p>\n

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After a three million dollar effort to remove plutonium and contaminated soil, the site was cleared for unrestricted use as it is today by the federal government in 1975. Controversy over the location sprung up once again after a report was released in 1986 stating that unusual objects were found in the lake. Due to the nuclear past of the location, speculation arose that barrels of nuclear waste were the described objects. This story spread until 1992, when a team of scuba divers went down to search for barrels of radioactive material. None were found. Instead, the scuba team found “rocks, tree stumps, a sunken jeep and a sunken boat” according the official report, putting the nuclear rumors to rest.<\/p>\n

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Source:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.poughkeepsiejournal.com\/story\/news\/local\/2014\/08\/12\/dateline-nuclear-lake\/13976085\/<\/p>\n

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