This is what used to be Kirkwood Lake, renamed by the local population to Silver Lake, because the lake would take on the hue of whatever paint Sherwin Williams was making that week. After a period of time the company took up the practice of dumping hundreds of metric tons of paint sludge into Silver Lake and lagoons they made for that purpose nearby. None had a liner to protect the waters of Hillards creek which flows into three other small lakes nearby. This site will never be completely clean, even after the toxic lake bed is excavated 20 feet (6 meters) deep and hauled away for safe disposal, the site will be contaminated with paint manufacture bi-products. Sherwin-Williams paid a mere $21M dollars to walk away from this 130 year old mess, and incurred no legal impact because dumping paint sludge into lakes wasn't illegal from 1850 to 1978.
Link to EPA Superfund case:
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