"Giant toxic slag heap in the middle of town" is probably pretty common. Was definitely a thing in El Paso, Texas, where I lived in the 1980s. https://www.nrdc

"Giant toxic slag heap in the middle of town" is probably pretty common. Was definitely a thing in El Paso, Texas, where I lived in the 1980s. https://www.nrdc.org/stories/flint-east-chicago-there-was-smeltertown https://www.nrdc.org/stories/flint-east-chicago-there-was-sm...