8 Industrial Road

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TheIndustrial Road/Industrial Metals site at 3000 Agnes Street occupies an 8 acre tract in a residential, light industrial, and commercial area of Corpus Christi. The site operated from 1937 to mid-1980 as a metal salvage company dealing mainly in cracked lead acid batteries and copper coils removed from electrical transformers.

In 1981, an investigation at the site revealed piles of cracked batteries, whole batteries, and lead stored in an area of one to two acres in size. At that time, the county health department recommended that the old acid neutralization pit be covered or drained, battery cases removed, and the site sampled for heavy metals. The sampling revealed high levels of both lead and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) impacting approximately 1,500 cubic yards of soils.

A closure plan was approved by the State of Texas that called for the removal of contaminated soil and construction of clay and concrete caps over the remediated areas. Responsible parties completed the cleanup in 1990.

In January 2004, the TCEQ proposed the site to the State Superfund Registry and by June 2004 the remedial investigation was under way. In 2011, the TCEQ removed the large, dilapidated building at the site.

During a soil investigation conducted in November 2013, high concentrations of lead were discovered in the soil along the Tex-Mex Railroad right-of-way, adjacent to the southern perimeter of the site. Because the lead contamination of the soils posed an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health and the environment, the TCEQ performed an immediate removal.

In January 2014, approximately 1,853 cubic yards of lead contaminated soils were excavated and properly disposed of off-site. The excavated areas were then backfilled with clean soil. Remedial action was completed in May 2014.

A Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement, released by the BLM in November 2023, identified extensive and devastating impacts to Alaska rural communities, and vital subsistence resources, including caribou, salmon and sheefish.

8. It will harm Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. Lying north of the Arctic Circle, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve is so wild it contains no roads or trails. It is one of the largest protected parkland areas in the world. This vast and wild landscape contains major portions of the range and habitat for the Western Arctic Caribou Herd, and refuge for moose, Dall Sheep, wolverines, and myriad other species. The Ambler Road will cut directly through the National Preserve for 26-miles, damaging this treasured landscape and those that depend on it.

wherever I look in OSM I find that the tag highway=residential is used for roads within industrial areas. This is according to the description (and my opinion) of what a residential road is wrong! How can one deal with that? "highways=industrial" or "highway=service" with the addition "service=industrial" could do!?

The usual way to tag a road that has similar characteristics to a residential road but lies in an industrial area is highway=unclassified. highway=service could be used for something that is a pure access road but I would never expect trucks on a highway=service.

I would tag an access road to a specific firm within the industrial area as highway=service and service=driveway . So I would expect trucks on a service road!Another example from a different context: Consider highway=service and service=parking_aisle: Why not expecting a truck there? But you are right, that in general the roads within an industrial area should be tagged as highway=unclassified.

I've ended up using highway=residential in some cases also in industrial areas per the definition that unclassified roads are to be the lowest level of road network (w/ through traffic), which is not true for many "basic" roads in industrial areas.

So, my approach has been more from the highway hierarchy than type of usage in which the hierarchy goes:primary, secondary, tertiary, unclassified, residential, service, (track)-- where residential and below don't carry through traffic.

By most interpretations, residential and unclassified are on about the same level in the hierarchy. I.e. they're the same but the 'residential' road has houses around it. Physically they're generally the same.

All those highway=residential tags in the USA at least come from the Tiger import. It probably should have come in as highway=secondary or highway=tertiary. Just don't worry about it: the tag sounds wrong but works fine.

the tag for a road or path which is not yet classified in OSM (e.g. is derived from aerial imagery without local knowledge) besides guessing is highway=road. This is a kind of fixme to the following mappers that they should classify this road.

I've been thinking there should be a highway=industrial for some time but have shied away from unilaterally using it.highway=service is no good (for the industrial estate on which I work) as the roads are quite definitely public highways, but of no use for anything other than getting to the industrial units.

highway=unclassified is not really a road without classification (that would be highway=road) but rather the same as highway=residential, but outside a residential area. This strange naming scheme comes from the UK hierarchy of roads and takes a bit to get used to.

While highway=unclassified is (imho unfortunately) the corresponding tag for "basic roads" outside of residential areas it's imho important to remember that within residential areas there is a difference of hierarchy between these two: As the Key:highway wiki-page reads: "Unclassified roads typically form the lowest form of the interconnecting grid network" whereas the residential roads are "primarily for access to properties".

The road, which has a gravel surface, begins at Highway 667 in the community of Sultan. It travels eastward through remote forests for approximately 80 km (50 mi) to the intersection of Highway 144 and Highway 560, 96 km (60 mi) north of Cartier and 32 km (20 mi) south of Gogama. The road is one of the only intersections along Highway 144 apart from its termini. It also provides the only all-season road access to the community of Biscotasing and the ghost towns of Jerome Mine and Ramsey. There are no services available along the road.[2]

A traffic study on the road in 2016 found that 45 percent of the vehicles using the road were passenger cars.[3] In 2007 the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) estimated that approximately 400 vehicles traverse the road on an average day.[4] The Sultan Industrial Road is maintained by Eacom Timber Corporation in a joint funding agreement with the Province of Ontario.[3]It has a speed limit of 70 kilometres per hour (43 mph), as defined in Ontario Regulation 621.[5]Despite this, traffic often travels faster, and the loose surface of the road can result in airborne debris.[3]

The Sultan Industrial Road was initially constructed by the private logging company, E.B. Eddy Forest Products Limited, and was known as the Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment (KVP) Road. On September 19, 1978, an agreement was signed between the company and the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, predecessor to the modern MTO. This agreement opened the road for public use under the maintenance of the company.[3][1]The road has remained unchanged since, with the exception of the responsibility for its maintenance, which is now under the jurisdiction of Eacom.[3]

In the 1990s, provincial MPP Floyd Laughren lobbied for the road to be fully paved, and secured a commitment from the MTO to do so shortly before the 1995 election; however, following the election the plan was cancelled by the new government of Mike Harris.[3] Many municipal politicians and media commentators in the area have also lobbied for the road to be upgraded to full provincial highway status, as the route would reduce the length of a trip from Sudbury to Wawa by over 100 kilometres (60 mi) compared to the current routing of Highway 17,[4]and would provide an alternate route for traffic in the event of a closure of the Montreal River Hill segment of Highway 17.[6]Despite this, the MTO contends that traffic volumes along the road do not justify its assumption as a provincial highway.[3][4]

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In an undated image provided by Ken Hill/National Park Service, Alaska, the headwaters of the Ambler River in the Noatak National Preserve of Alaska, near where a proposed access road would end. The Biden administration is expected to deny permission for a mining company to build a 211-mile industrial road through fragile Alaskan wilderness, handing a victory to environmentalists in an election year when the president wants to underscore his credentials as a climate leader and conservationist. (Ken Hill/National Park Service, Alaska via The New York Times)

The Biden administration is expected to deny permission for a mining company to build a 211-mile industrial road through fragile Alaskan wilderness, handing a victory to environmentalists in an election year when the president wants to underscore his credentials as a climate leader and conservationist.

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