Brio Toxic, TX (Any one have the latest info?)

[DeadMike]

Hello all!!
I am new to this site and love it!! I read info on here about this supposadlly haunted ghost town, Brio Toxic (neighborhood) dating from 2000. I also read recentally that the clean up of the area was completed in Nov. 2003. I just want to know what the status is of this site. How much was cleaned, and if you may still visit there today, or if it even exsist any more. I live VERY close to this location and would love to check it out if possible!! Thanks if any one knows please let me know! ~Mike~

[old judge]

Mike: With a little work, mainly finding San Jacinto College (South) on a map, and then figuring out how to view aerial of area, you can see what this site looks like to some degree; that is you can see clearly where it is, and the area referred to on this site as bulldozed, and "the woods". A good site for coordinating those things is www.maps.google.com (http://www.maps.google.com/). Once you can Id on there, it will be simple on a better aerial site. OJ

[CaliforniaKris]

wow, I was a student of SanJac Souths nursing program back in the 80s. Was it an old town called brio toxic?? Never heard of it on campus.

[Rockcrusher]

Anything & everything you wanted to know about the Brio Refinery . . .

http://www.tnrcc.state.tx.us/permitting/remed/superfund/brioa.html

[heathermm00]

They swear that it's all cleaned up and they are building new neighborhoods over the site. The neighborhood even had a school in it. The people that lived there had to leave pretty much everything in the houses. They have demolished it all except for a few street lights that are covered with vines. My cousin used to go and explore the abandoned homes. He said it was like the people had just dissapeared. They left everything. Tvs, clothes, beds everything.

[joe black]

I grew up in this neighborhood from the ages of 3-6. I remember the neighborhood and school well. Our T-ball field I played on was built over one of the dump sites nearby, and foam looking toxic stuff would sometimes seep out of the field. When I was in first grade people in the neighborhood started to become sick. I remember some days there was a very strange smell in the air, a chemical smell. My mother was pregnant with my younger brother at this time, and he was born with significant birth defects due to chemicals that had leaked into the groundwater. The effects of these chemicals led to increased incidence of cancer in adults, and a much more dramatic effects on developing fetuses. When we moved we took all of our furniture, the toxins were in the water and sometimes the air supply, they didn't contaminate furniture or TV's as the previous poster stated. Brio was caught burning some of these chemicals at night without filtration which led to respiratory problems. Very ****ed up company that tried to deny culpability for a long time. To this day most research claims that there 'may have been' health issues. Trust me, Hundreds of people's lives were destroyed. My brother ended up dying from complications related to this at the age of 2. The executives that authorized these practices to save money should have all been imprisoned for life, instead they received a slap on the wrist. I still drive down there every few years to remember. I did see new subdivisions have been built up right around that area. After what happened, I think anyone living within 50 square miles of that site is an idiot. I highly doubt the government has cleaned the ground water of that area properly and completely, the lifespan of those toxins is thousands of years.