A few days ago Dan Lee, JennyUE, triple_t, and I went exploring to see what we could find. After checking several sealed locations in freezing temperatures, we finally lucked out on a really cool location.

This abandonment is the former site of a hazardous waste incinerator that was shut down in the early 1990's after some barrels that had been tampered with exploded inside the oven.

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While the incinerator itself appears to have been demolished at an unknown date, the chemical storage tanks, pumping stations, garages, and control room all were intact.

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The hatches on some of the smaller two or three story holding tanks were open, so I climbed up an incredibly icy ladder to take a picture inside the tank. The ladder was so icy I decided to keep my feet on the ground for the rest of the trip- though I hope to return when it's warmer to I can climb the many ladders there.

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Can you see the bird nest?

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The control room was pretty cool- the main control panel was even mostly intact.

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Several buildings around the property had circuit maps taped to various pieces of electronic equipment, including the control panel.

Dan Lee posted a thread about this location here. He called it a chemical production plant because that was our best guess as to the location's purpose at the time of his posting- we didn't find out until right before I posted this that it was actually a hazardous waste incinerator.

Despite our setbacks early on, this location made the hours of travel well worth it. I'd love to go back again someday, and it was a pretty unique find.

I like that control panel shot!

nice find! this looks like a cool place!

Nice work Aran - looks like you guys had fun!