Stringfellow Acid Pits View Multi-Cache
Stringfellow Acid Pits View
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This is a two stage multi cache where the first stage is a field puzzle. The parking and all the information needed is located at the Mary Vagle Nature Center which is located next to the Martin Tudor-Jurupa Hills Regional Park. The grounds are open dawn to dusk but the Nature Center is only open Wednesday thru Sunday 12:00 to 5:00PM. Read the description before heading to the posted coordinates and the view of the Stringfellow Acid Pits.
Before heading up the hill to the posted coordinates (view location) you will need to find a small piece of information to be used upon reaching the view. After parking in the provided parking lot proceed to the Nature Center and find “BDL’s” phone number. This information is available even when the center is closed but I would encourage you to plan your visit when you can enjoy the nice displays where a surprise resident looking for a dinner handout will greet you. After finding the phone number you will need to remember or write down the 8th and 9th digits in the number.
Example (123) 456-7890 in this case would be 89
With the two digits in hand you can now climb to the view location. At the top of the rock you will find a command and direction to move painted in a BOX along with lots of other graffiti. Follow the directions using the two digits from the phone number in feet and you well find the cache. The cache is a small makeshift bottle I constructed on site after I forgot to bring along a cache container. It is well hidden using natural camouflage and a natural hidey-hole.
Please re-hide the container as well or better than you find it. Remember this is the home of critters (snakes) than can spoil a great day hiking. Proceed with great caution while caching in their home territory and enjoy the view of the most polluted and toxic site in California.
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Here is some history on what you are looking at below and to the south.
The Stringfellow Acid Pits are a toxic waste dump, and a Superfund site, located just north of the neighborhood of Glen Avon. The site became the center of national news coverage in the early 1980s, in part because it was considered one of the most polluted sites in California, and because it became linked with mismanagement and scandal in the U.S.
Situated at the base of the Jurupa Mountains in Pyrite Canyon, the 17-acre site was originally a rock quarry owned by James Stringfellow. The site opened in 1956 for dumping toxic waste. In 1972, after it became apparent that the pits were leaking into local groundwater, Stringfellow shut down the site. During the facility's 16 years of operation, more than 34 million gallons of liquid industrial waste was deposited in evaporation ponds. Claiming his company was without assets, title of the land passed to the State of California, and oversight was given to the Santa Ana River Water Quality Board. Between 1969 and 1980 bad management and bad weather resulted in several spills and intentional releases of toxic chemicals into Pyrite Creek which flowed into storm channels running through Glen Avon.
In the early 1980s, after the passage of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, or Superfund, the site came to the attention of the US Environmental Protection Agency. It was listed as the most contaminated site in California, and was one of the first sites selected for remediation under the Act.
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