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Ghost town in Utah, United States
Fry Canyon
was a small community in
San Juan County
,
Utah
, United States, located in Fry Canyon, just south of
White Canyon
, 50 miles (80 km) west on
State Route 95
from its junction with
U.S. Route 191
at
Blanding
.
Description
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Fry Canyon was a
uranium
boom town
during the 1950s, and the Fry Canyon Lodge opened in 1955, but it has since closed in 2007. The tiny
hamlet
, now a
ghost town
, is 19 miles (31 km) west-southwest of Woodenshoe Butte, and 8 miles (13 km) west-northwest of
Natural Bridges National Monument
.
The activities of a uranium ore upgrader mill (1957-1960) and a subsequent copper heap leach operation (1963-1968) at Fry Spring, two miles southeast of Fry Canyon, caused uranium, copper and radium contamination of groundwater in colluvial channel deposits within Fry Creek.
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The
U.S. Geological Survey
(with funding from the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
, and other agencies) installed three permeable reactive barriers, containing three different reactive materials (foamed zero-valent iron (ZVI) pellets, bone charcoal pellets, amorphous ferric oxyhydroxide (AFO) slurry mixed with pea gravel), at the site, which is managed by the U.S.
Bureau of Land Management
.
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Media related to
Fry Canyon, Utah
at Wikimedia Commons