Archive ID: 2019-067-1

Balloon mapping aerial image of petcoke piles with petcoke on snow on Calumet River

Date Created: 2014-15

Created By: Coalition to Ban Petcoke, Sara Wylie, Public Lab, Holden Sparacino

Media Type: Photograph

Backstory:

Aerial balloon-mapping image taken over Calumet River in March 2014. From balloon mapping workshop sponsored by the Southeast Chicago community organization Coalition to Ban Petcoke. Workshop assisted by Holden Sparacino and Public Lab. This stitched-together image of black petcoke dust on snowy and icy River was first to show definitively that petcoke was getting into Calumet River.

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