Fry Canyon was a small community in
San Juan County,
Utah, United States, located in Fry Canyon, just south of
White Canyon, west on
State Route 95
Route 95, or Highway 95, may refer to routes in the following countries:
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International
* European route E95
Australia
* Great Northern Highway (Western Australia)
* Fossickers Way (New South Wales)
Canada
* British Columbia Highway 95
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from its junction with
U.S. Route 191
U.S. Route 191 (US 191) is a spur of U.S. Route 91 that has two branches. The southern branch runs for from Douglas, Arizona on the Mexican border to the southern part of Yellowstone National Park. The northern branch runs for from the north ...
at
Blanding.
Description
Fry Canyon was a
uranium boom town
A boomtown is a community that undergoes sudden and rapid population and economic growth, or that is started from scratch. The growth is normally attributed to the nearby discovery of a precious resource such as gold, silver, or oil, although t ...
during the 1950s, and the Fry Canyon Lodge opened in 1955, but it has since closed in 2007. The tiny
hamlet, now a
ghost town, is west-southwest of Woodenshoe Butte, and west-northwest of
Natural Bridges National Monument.
The activities of a uranium ore upgrader mill (1957-1960) and a subsequent copper heap leach operation (1963-1968) at Fry Spring, two miles southeast of Fry Canyon, caused uranium, copper and radium contamination of groundwater in colluvial channel deposits within Fry Creek. The
U.S. Geological Survey (with funding from the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and other agencies) installed three permeable reactive barriers, containing three different reactive materials (foamed zero-valent iron (ZVI) pellets, bone charcoal pellets, amorphous ferric oxyhydroxide (AFO) slurry mixed with pea gravel), at the site, which is managed by the U.S.
Bureau of Land Management
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering federal lands. Headquartered in Washington DC, and with oversight over , it governs one eighth of the country's la ...
.
See also
*
List of ghost towns in Utah
References
External links
Mining communities in Utah
Ghost towns in Utah
Ghost towns in San Juan County, Utah
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