3110 CASTOR AVENUE
The Franklin Slag Pile is located on a three-acre property at the intersection of Castor and Delaware Avenues in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia in an industrial area bordered to the west by Interstate 95 and to the east by the Delaware River. The site consists of a covered slag pile containing an estimated 68,000 cubic yards of slag material – a byproduct from the copper smelter at the neighboring Franklin Smelting and Refining Corp. MDC, the operator of the site from the 1950s to 1999, sold the slag as sand-blasting grit.
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