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Longfellow Creek floods All Star and onto Nucor Steel

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Longfellow Creek overflowed its banks in the Youngstown neighborhood during recent heavy rains and thousands of gallons of creek water flooded the parking lot at All Star Fitness and poured across Andover Street into the Nucor Steel plant. Water in the plant was about 3 feet deep.

Fortunately the rain stopped, the flood receded and All Star Fitness was open again the next day, Dec.4.

Nucor Steel also got lucky. The steel plant was scheduled to shut down that week for routine maintenance anyway so the new repairs caused by the flood were completed without major disruption, said Bart Kale, Nucor Steel's environmental engineer.


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