The Little Miami Trail will be CLOSED all or part of Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 11-12, between mile markers 35 and 35.5 (at Peters Cartridge Factory). The Grandin Rd. parking lot is OPEN for trail users traveling northeast. Please call 513-552-7030 for closure updates.
Work activities related to the Peters Cartridge Factory site soil remediation project will necessitate closures on certain days between 7:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. These intermittent closures are expected to continue until Nov. 20, 2015. The trail will be open all weekends. Please call the 24/7 hotline for Peters trail closures for ongoing daily updated information: 513-552-7030.
Closures have been necessary due to relocation of contaminated soil from the old Peters Cartridge Factory, which was designated an EPA Superfund site in the mid-1970s. The DuPont Corporation is legally responsible for the cleanup because it purchased Remington Arms, which earlier had acquired Peters. Remediation work at the site is being conducted by Parsons engineering.
Incorporated in 1887, the Peters Cartridge Company was founded by Gershom Peters, son-in-law of the founder of the King Powder Co. across the river at Kings Mills. The Peters Company loaded shotgun shells with powder and shot that was made in the on-site shot tower. The original Peters buildings were "blown to atoms," as The Western Star described it, in an explosion when a train hit powder kegs on July 15, 1890. The explosion and resulting fire killed 11 people instantly and injured almost 100 others. The present building beside the trail at Grandin Road was built in 1916, and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
