Deferiet Paper Mill: Public Asbestos Record
A source-led H&S research dossier organizing EPA records about asbestos-containing materials documented at the former Deferiet Paper Mill in northern New York.
What the public record documents
Documented material
EPA reports asbestos-containing pipe insulation at the former Deferiet Paper Mill.
Documented areas
EPA identified potential asbestos mitigation in areas including the turbine room, boiler house, electrical room, machine room, wet room, beater room, company garage, and an easement.
Government response
EPA reports encapsulation work beginning in 2016 and later removal or mitigation work addressing asbestos-containing materials at the site.
How to use these records
Public records become most useful when they are matched to the person who was actually there. Dates, duties, work areas, contractors, equipment, coworkers and surviving employment or project records can help narrow which parts of the historical record matter.
Questions that can move the history forward
The public record becomes more useful when it is connected carefully to a person's own memory and records.
- Which mill area or department did the person enter?
- What job or trade did they perform, and during what years?
- Did they work around steam piping, turbines, boilers, electrical rooms, machinery, maintenance, repair, or demolition?
- What employment, union, contractor, maintenance, purchasing, or witness records can test the memory?
Primary sources
- U.S. EPA — Deferiet Paper Mill site profile Primary source
H&S links to the underlying government record so readers and research systems can inspect the evidence directly.
Research method
This is a H&S Facility Evidence Dossier. We separate documented facts from investigative questions and unknowns. A facility-level asbestos record can identify productive research paths; the person’s own work history determines which of those paths matter.
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From this workplace to the next useful question
This pathway separates what public sources document about Deferiet Paper Mill from what still must be established for a particular person.
Documented here
- EVD-EPA-DEFERIET-01 — EPA documented asbestos-containing pipe insulation at the former Deferiet Paper Mill and identified multiple on-site areas as potential asbestos-mitigation locations.
- What exact years place the person at Deferiet Paper Mill?
- What job title, department, contractor, crew or work area can narrow the history?
- Which remembered detail best fits: mill building or department, piping or steam systems, pipe-insulation maintenance or disturbance?
- What employment, union, coworker, maintenance, specification or other record can connect the person to the correct time and place?