Environmental Geology of Omaha Field Trip Sites

This is a list of sites in and around Omaha , some of which we will visit on our 3 to 4 field trips in the course. Links are provided for some sites, which can then be visited in 'virtual' field trip mode. You can also go to an overview satellite image and link to sites marked on the image.

Asarco Plant, downtown Omaha

• lead smelting facility with documented soil contamination
• being closed and capped

Cunningham Lake Dam Site

• siltation and shoreline erosion
• dam saftey

Douglas County landfill

• engineering of
• lifespan?
• monitoring

Florence Missouri River terrace

• alluvial underpinnings

Fort Calhoun 1999 ravine development.

Freedom Park

• Missouri River flood control structures - levees
• Missour River channel stabilization constructs
• old landfills along river corridor
• storage tank facilities across the road

Heflinger Park

• old landfill
• differential subsidence problems
• methane vents
• possible leachate

Hidden Lake in Fontenelle Forest

• old river channel
• back to the river program
• importance for river's biodiversity

Hummel Park

• loess bluffs and Missouri River floodplain
• loess and volcanic ash exposures
• earth slump scars
• mudflows across the road

Intermittant springs N of Maple on Cottonwood Lane

• associated with glacial till
• associated local homeowner problems

Keystone Trail N of Cass Street

• channelization, and recreational green space.
• channel stability and associated slumping.

Missouri River (Florence) water treatment plant

M.U.D. underground liquid propane storage facility at 63rd and Oak

• 300' deep in Paleozoic shale

Platte River 'groundwater' treatment plant

One-Pacific Place slump

Stream through Elmwood Park

Sewage Treatment Plant near South Omaha Bridge

Towl Park

• Big Papio creek channelization
• floodplain
• erosion and meander cutoff
• springs
• gold course run off

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