timbo
8 posts
Jun 26, 2012
5:27 PM
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Don, that old plant was on the left going south at the top of the hill. There was an old lane there named Betty lane, just to the south of the Catholic school. It was down Betty Lane that the plant was. We rode our motorcycles on trails all around the old plant. There were many buildings and permanent cranes that a truck could drive under. There was security there even though no work was going on there even up through the mid 70`s. We would try to go in the buildings, but got ran out many times. One may wonder what was still in there.
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RHowell
1 post
Jan 02, 2013
12:20 PM
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Table 2-1 lists this and other Mound Laboratory facilities.
Unit I - Monsanto Central Research Department – 1515 Nicholas Road,
Dayton, Ohio
Unit II - Monsanto rocket propellant laboratory off Betty Lane, adjacent
to present St. Henry’s Church next to Dayton Mall
Unit III - Bonebrake Theological Seminary, 1601 W. First St., Dayton, Ohio
Unit IV - Runnymede Playhouse, Dixon Ave. and Runnymede Road in Oakwood,
Ohio
Unit V Mound Laboratory, Miamisburg, Ohio
Warehouse - Warehouse at 3rd and Sears St., Dayton, Ohio
Marion - Duplicate production facility in Marion, Ohio
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timbo
12 posts
Jan 03, 2013
3:46 PM
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donw...I drive by there every now and then, there is a 10 foot guardrail across the old entrance to Betty lane, and you can still make out the old roadbed, but it is becoming quite overgrown. Now that I know what was there, it may have not been the best place to ride motorcycles when I was a kid.
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tlturbo
440 posts
Jan 04, 2013
11:32 AM
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If you look at that link, the view is looking NE. If you look at wikimapia, you can find that funny shaped rectangle pond still there about a half mile N of the Dayton Mall on the E side of Springboro.
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olds88
29 posts
Feb 01, 2013
5:37 PM
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I lived within two blocks of where the detonator waw developed.I would spend many a afternoon in the gate house talking to the guard.He was not allowed near the building he only was at the gate.Oakwood polic & fire had know idea what was going on in there.Any emergencies were handled by Base people.There were houses within 50 yards.Imagine that today?Back to Betty lane. I know that some of the foundation was broken up in six ft. squares and hauled out in Army duese and a halfs.The large pieces were taken to betty laneand some are still there behind White Allen
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jkzengel
1 post
Jul 15, 2013
3:53 AM
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The plant, Miami Powder, was closed after the war. My grandfather, Adam V. Zengel, purchased the property thereafter. He raised cattle on the land. He also donated the parcel for St. Henry Parish. Zengel Construction Company began to develop the land, Vienna Park, about 1968. The plant was not active in the 70's, but buildings were leased to a few companies, and the residences were rented until the last of the buildings came down around 1990.
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Perry401
163 posts
Jul 21, 2013
9:43 PM
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If you like mysteries, they "lost" two truckloads of dirt from the Runnymead facility when it was decommissioned. Many suspect that the contract haulers took it to some construction site in South Dayton for post-WWII housing. Someone out there might be living on the next "Love Canal" Superfund site!
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Steve K
217 posts
Jul 22, 2013
10:30 AM
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They've been promoting this as a site for condo's, apartments, and small businesses for awhile.... and can't seem to understand why no one is interested?
Warehouse - Warehouse at 3rd and Sears St., Dayton, Ohio
It was a superfund site, I think, but last time I talked to the EPA they couldn't confirm whether it was ever cleaned up or not, and I never saw anybody working on the building. It housed all the radioactive urine specimens from the Mound for years, and apparently there was polonium contamination. Same stuff that killed that Russian spy in London a few years ago.
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olds88
118 posts
Jul 23, 2013
6:06 PM
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I kind of doubt any loads of material got lost as i recall they were using Army coe two and a half ton dump trucks and they ran non stop for several weeks.Beside the building they scraped four ft. of dirt off.Today they would take four years and billions of dollars plus hundreds of law suits.The EPA is the gift that just keeps giving.This site makes me wonder how much of all the tax money spent on clean ups is justified.
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