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The Anniston–Oxford metropolitan statistical area is the second-most populated metropolitan area in Northeast Alabama, behind Huntsville. At the 2000 census , it had a population of 112,249. The MSA is anchored by significant jobs at Jacksonville State University, the Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center, Stringfellow Hospital, the ...
Choccolocco is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,804. [4] It was founded in 1832. The name Choccolocco is an anglicization of the Creek words "chahko lago" ("big shoals") or "choko rakko" ("big house"); sources vary.
318 Monsanto St., East St Louis, Il. Solutia Inc. was an American manufacturer of materials and specialty chemicals including polyvinyl butyral (PVB), ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA), and thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) interlayers for laminated glass, aftermarket window films, protective barrier and conductive films, and rubber processing chemicals.
Environmental concerns in creek pollution have been focused primarily on discharges of Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs) into Snow Creek, a feeder stream of the Choccolocco, from the Monsanto plant that had operated at Anniston, Alabama from 1935 to 1971. The dumping and discharges have badly damaged the creek's ecosystem.
State Route 202 Route information Maintained by ALDOT Length 9.1 mi (14.6 km) Major junctions West end I-20 west of Oxford Major intersections US 78 in Oxford East end SR 21 in Anniston Location Country United States State Alabama Counties Calhoun, Talladega Highway system Alabama State Highway System Interstate US State ← SR 201 → SR 203 State Route 202 (SR 202) is a 9.1-mile-long (14.6 ...
Mountain Longleaf NWR. The Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge is a 9,016-acre (36 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in northeastern Alabama near the city of Anniston on the former site of Fort McClellan. Its name comes from some of the last remaining montane longleaf pine ( Pinus palustris) ecosystem in the southeastern United ...
Monsanto is founded as a chemical company. 1945–1960. Monsanto begins producing agrochemicals. 1961–1982. Monsanto creates an agricultural division. It manufactures Agent Orange, which is later banned. 1982–2000. Monsanto starts its pivot into biotechnology. It genetically engineers a plant cell in 1982, commercializes the first ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in Alabama designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations.