Salt Lake City’s Urban Growth and Kennecott Utah Copper: A Geographical Analysis of Urban Expansion onto a Previously Proposed Superfund Site Adjacent to the World’s Largest Copper Mine
Kennecott copper mine is one of the largest producers of pollution in the United States: it has contaminated over 72 square miles in the Salt Lake Valley. In 1998 alone, Kennecott, which is located only 25 miles southwest of downtown Salt Lake City, released 439 million pounds of toxic material int...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2008
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/206 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1219&context=theses |