To solve the problem, the city hired waste hauler Russell Bliss to spray what was supposed to be just used engine oil on the streets, at a cheap cost of 6 cents a gallon.īliss said it would do the trick, cause he’d successfully sprayed his horse stables and other ranches in the area. In the 1970s, the lower-middle class town couldn’t afford to pave its miles of dirt streets and was plagued with constant dust clouds kicked up by cars and trucks. But one with a very checkered past, as it’s the former location of the town of Times Beach and an infamous hazardous waste site. Louis, is one of Missouri’s newer state parks. Superfund site Warning sign outside Times Beach, Missouri 1985Īlong famed ROUTE 66 just outside St.
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