![]() In the late 1890s reports from the State Board of Health documented deaths from cholera and typhoid from drinking water supplies contaminated with wastes from the tanneries. The Aberjona River was known to be contaminated as early as the mid-1800s. And, as before, because of the abundant water supply, much of the newer industry located along the banks of the Aberjona River and in the Aberjona watershed. These operations included chemical barrel cleaning and reclaiming operations, piggeries for supplying hides to the tanneries, and smaller chemical manufacturing operations.ĭead pigs rotting in field, 1922 Manufacturing-Related Environmental Impacts and Woburnĭuring post World War II re-industrialization Woburn was again the site of increased industrial development because of its proximity to Boston and because it was located at the juncture of two major highways, Interstates 93 and 95. As tannery and chemical operations grew, smaller industries were built throughout Woburn. ![]() Some of the waste was put into landfills where it was burned and buried. From the late 1800s into the early 1900s it was the location of the Merrimac Chemical Company, one of the region's largest chemical manufacturing operations which produced arsenic and lead based pesticides, sulfuric acid, and explosives used during World War I and II.Īs was the practice in the past, waste from manufacturing operations was disposed of on adjacent property in pits, ponds, lagoons, and directly into the Aberjona River. For more than 100 years this property was to be used for manufacturing chemicals for the New England region's leather, textile, and agricultural industries. In 1850 the Woburn Chemical Works began operation in north Woburn.
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