ABSTRACT
For all intents and purposes, modern gasworks remediation began in about 1980, driven by the emergent SUPERFUND Law and from various forms of cost damages brought forth in the course of urban renewal. However, the Lowell, Massachusetts, Gas Light Company found its original 1848 Dutton Street gasworks in such deplorable condition in 1902, with complaints of off-plant migration of gas liquors and light oils, in the subsurface, that it was compelled to undertake a two year remedial action by Philadelphia consulting Gas Engineer Arthur T. Stafford (1903-1905; see Stafford, 1907). This is the earliest gasworks environmental restoration known to the author. At least seven other former manufactured gas plants (FMGPs) lie in that city.
