jacobs smelter

NEAR INTERSECTION OF SMITH & JOHNSON STS

The Jacobs Smelter Superfund Site is located in Tooele County, approximately five miles south of the city of Tooele, Utah. The site is approximately eight square miles in area and includes the town of Stockton and Rush Lake. The Utah Department of Environmental Quality (UDEQ) is the lead agency for implementing work at this site and EPA is the supporting agency. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) partners with both agencies to address the contamination concerns on its property within the site. The Stockton area was the center of a silver and base-metal mining, milling and smelting district from the 1860s until 1970. By 1886, several smelters were built within the Stockton area. Jacobs Smelter was located on the northeast end of Stockton and operated in the 1870s. The largest smelter in the Stockton area was the Waterman Smelting Works, which opened in 1871 and operated continuously until 1886. The Chicago Smelter opened on the eastern shore of Rush Lake, two miles south of Stockton, in 1873, and operated until the fall of 1880. Two Carson Buzzo smelters opened in 1873. They were located about a half mile south of the Chicago Smelter. Other smelters operated for a few years and then shut down. The exact locations of these smelters are unknown, but several sites within the boundaries of Operable Unit 2 are suspected due to the presence of elevated concentrations of heavy metals detected during site sampling.

• Davenport And Flagstaff Smelters (Sandy , UT)
• East Helena Site (East Helena, MT)
• Vasquez Boulevard And I-70 (Denver, CO)
• Tonolli Corp. (Nesquehoning, PA)
• Washington County Lead District - Richwoods (Richwoods, MO)

• Acm Smelter And Refinery (Black Eagle, MT)
• Eureka Mills (Eureka, UT)
• Jacobsville Neighborhood Soil Contamination (Evansville, IN)
• Washington County Lead District - Potosi (Potosi, MO)