With little fanfare, state employees started parking Monday on a downtown Springfield lot near First and Washington streets.
“It is sort of the period at the end of the sentence,” said Leigh Morris, spokesman for Ameren.
Until recently, the area was covered by a giant tent that contained odors while workers hired by Ameren removed tons of soil contaminated by a long-closed coal gasification plant that once fueled lights used by Abraham Lincoln and other city denizens.
The gasification plant was opened in 1855 and closed in 1925. It left behind a considerable amount of dirt contaminated with coal tar, a byproduct of the gasification process.
There were no glitches with the project, which that started last fall. About 6,000 cubic yards of soil was removed and trucked to a landfill near Detroit, Morris said.
“Everything was pretty much right on time,” Morris said. “It moved along pretty much right as we expected.”
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