On the corner of High Street and Decatur Street in Montgomery, there are two empty buildings that used to be Dry Cleaners. One was a Davis Cleaners, the other named Capital City Cleaners. It seems odd that competing cleaners would locate across the street from one another, but it may have been a good idea at the time.
Both buildings are falling down.
There's another decrepit building on another corner of that intersection as well, but I don't believe it was ever a dry cleaners.
Capital City cleaners was started in 1893 and at one point had eleven locations.
The dry cleaning locations were among the potential sources of water contamination identified by the EPA as possible sources of contamination that resulted in the Capital City Plume.
The former Montgomery Advertiser building on South Lawrence Street was also named, but the newspaper hired its own experts and they found there were more obvious sources. That newspaper building was later bought by the County and turned into office space.
Want to see if you can wrap your head around the flood of documents produced by the EPA during the years long investigation. Help yourself HERE.
Some photos showing the inside of the dry cleaning building are HERE.
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