Urinal Cake Creek (Photo)

When a chemical factory that makes toilet bowl cleaner explodes, this is what happens to the creek downstream.

Photo By: Pete Hazelton

A chemical company's factory that produces toilet bowl cleaner and other consumer and industrial chemicals burned down in late July. The runoff from the water used to put out the fire made its way into a local creek that runs through Athens, Ga., causing a serious fish kill and dying the entire creek bright blue. Among the chemicals were formaldehyde, methanol, dichlorobenzene, which are all suspected carcinogens...

I spent the morning on July 29 riding around a city park where the creek flows through taking pictures... The entire park smelled like a urinal cake.

- Pete Hazelton

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