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This is a list of Superfund sites in Oklahoma designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
The Alderwoods Group formed on January 2, 2002, after the Loewen Group, then the second largest funeral home and cemetery operator in North America, emerged from bankruptcy. [2] In November 2006, Alderwoods was acquired by Service Corporation International in a US$1.2 billion deal reached in April of the same year. [3] [4]
Aftermath Services, a ServiceMaster company, performs crime scene clean up, homicide cleanup, suicide cleanup, hoarding cleanup, unattended death cleanup, infectious disease disinfection, and other trauma cleanup and specialty biohazard cleaning services such as hoarding and tear gas cleanup.
The destruction was extensive in Sulphur, a town of about 5,000 people south of Oklahoma City, where a tornado crumpled many downtown buildings, tossed cars and buses and sheared the roofs off houses across a 15-block radius. “You just can't believe the destruction,” Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said during a visit to the hard-hit town.
The Seminole Tribal Jurisdiction Area, where it provides services to its members, includes most of Seminole County in south-central Oklahoma, approximately 45 miles east of Oklahoma City. The Seminole Nation Tribal Complex is located in the town of Wewoka.
Cleveland County is a county in the central part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.The population was 295,528 at the 2020 United States census, [1] making it the third-most populous county in Oklahoma.
1907 – Norman becomes part of the new U.S. state of Oklahoma. 1909 – Norman Depot built. [6] 1913 – Oklahoma Railway Company interurban train begins operating. [3] 1915 – Oklahoma State Asylum active. [3] 1918 – "Fire at State Hospital." [2] 1920 – Population: 5,004. 1922 – WNAD radio begins broadcasting. [7]
Noble is located along the southwest edge of Cleveland County. It is bordered to the north by Norman, to the east by Slaughterville, and to the west by the Canadian River, across which is McClain County. U.S. Route 77 passes through Noble, leading north 28 miles (45 km) to the center of Oklahoma City and south 11 miles (18 km) to Purcell.