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Chick at the Crossing LbNA #46652

Owner:Ezmerelda
Plant date:Apr 17, 2009
Location:
City:Mancelona
County:Antrim
State:Michigan
Boxes:1
Found by: LaLaBirds
Last found:Aug 1, 2017
Status:FFFFFFaOFFFFFFFFaFF
Last edited:Apr 17, 2009
This is a store bought stamp

You will need to bring your own ink pad, writing utensil, and you may want to bring along the bug spray on those warm days!

LOCATION: Tar Lake is located east of Highway 131 and south of Elder Road in Mancelona Township, Antrim County. The site covers approximately 200-acres, and consists of ruins from various iron manufacturing company activities dating back to 1882.

SITE HISTORY: The facility produced iron by the charcoal method until it was shut down in the1940's. A byproduct of the charcoal production was various wood chemicals that were sold and a large quantity of wood tar waste which was deposited in a depression on the site that eventually became known as "Tar Lake". The wood chemical wastes and tar deposit contaminated the groundwater at the site and caused a dissolved iron plume that has migrated approximately 4 miles from the site.

CLEANUP ACTIONS: $ 9.6 million was spent by the USEPA and the property owners to remove and dispose of the waste tar at the site under an emergency removal action. The tar was burned at two power plants to generate electricity. The MDEQ constructed a $275,000 biosparging system to remediate the groundwater at the site. $2 million of FY01 Clean Michigan Initiative (CMI) monies* and $4 million of other state funds have been allocated to supply municipal water to residents affected by the dissolved iron plume and a neighboring trichloroethylene plume. The construction of the water supply will begin in FY2002. Bottled water has been temporarily supplied to Tar Lake plume residents. Approximately $200,000 of FY01 CMI money has been allocated to clean up a remote deposit of creosote on the facility. The USEPA will be funding the remedial action for the site which will address the remaining groundwater and soil contamination. The municipal water supply extension is near completion.

REDEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL: The bulk of the facility is currently owned by the Mancelona Community Resource Development (CRD) and Mancelona Township which plan to redevelop the facility as recreational property with unimpacted portions to be used as a residential area.

Antrim Crossing is located on Elder Rd on the East side of 131 near the old Tar Lake site. Take the entrance that will be the first road/driveway on the right when you turn on Elder.

The road curves up ahead
Take it left that's what I said
On a road to the left
Travel by foot near the fence
Go 35-40 paces down the track
Look to your left that's where it's at
A cluster of 12 trees at least
Have something hidden at their feet


Please be sure to place everything back and hide it well!

I encourage you to make letterboxes in the Mancelona and surrounding areas. There aren't too many around here.