An estimated 1,457 barrels were secretly dumped off barges from 1957 to 1962 after being trucked to Duluth from a Honeywell weapons plant in the Twin Cities.
Several theories developed over the years as to what was in the barrels, and the issue captured the imagination of many. Speculation ranged from radioactive nuclear waste to a purple, oozing toxic fluid to live explosives. A Superior author even penned a fiction novel on the barrels.
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/local/11520749.htm
Posted by Dave at April 30, 2005 11:18 PM