ANOTHER TANK Traditional Cache
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This cache is in a black plastic container 2.5 x 4 x 1 inches and is located in Lost Valley in the Weldon Springs Conservation Area. The area has some nice trails complete with a 9 mile hiking/mountain bike loop. It also has active beaver ponds and three lakes. The Little Femme Osage creek runs through this area. Parking available at N38 39.681 W090 45.473
A little history about this area:
The Weldon Spring Site is located 30 miles west of St. Louis, Missouri. The site was originally homesteaded in the 1800s by various groups of settlers including a group led by Francis Howell. The villages of Hamburg and Howell were thriving in the early 1900s in the southeastern part of St. Charles County along the banks of the Missouri River. Then, as the United States prepared to enter World War II, the Department of the Army, under a state of emergency, acquired 17,232 acres of land which permanently displaced the villages and surrounding farms. Atlas Powder Company, under contract with the Army, operated the trinitrotoluene (TNT) production plant which the Army built on the land.
In the 1950s, much of the land was transferred to public entities. Part of the remainder of the land was kept by the Army for training purposes with the rest going to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), predecessor to the Department of Energy (DOE). The AEC built a Uranium Feed Materials Plant (later called the Chemical Plant) in 1955. The plant took "yellow cake" (uranium ore concentrate), converted it into uranium metal and shipped it off for further processing at other sites. The uranium was ultimately used in both the nuclear weapons (supporting the cold war efforts) and nuclear fuels cycle processes. In December of 1966, the AEC ceased operations at the plant and it was placed under caretaker status.
Cache only contains a pencil and log book. There is enough room for small signature items.
It is about a 5 mile roundtrip. Depending on where you park, this milage can be shortened. This would be an excellent time to do CIRCLE the FIRE PLUG (GCMTEZ) since it is in the same area.
PLEASE BE KIND TO THE ENVIRONMENT. TREAD LIGHTLY.
Thanks to John Vogel of the MDC for his cooperation. Hunting is allowed in the area. For more information call 636-441-4554.
Additional Hints
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