Goodyear, Arizona history

“Lord’’ Darrell Duppa, an Englishman who helped establish Phoenix, is credited with naming Tempe in 1879.

Instead of accepting pay by his employer, the Arizona Canal Co., he accepted a package of stocks and bonds in 1883.

In May 1885, Malie M. Jackson and his business partners laid out a canal in what would later become Buckeye Valley.

Thomas Newt Clanton and his family co-founded the town of Buckeye a few years later in 1887, but called it Sidney.

Scottsdale was named for founder Winfield Scott, a Civil War veteran and retired Army chaplain who moved to Arizona's Salt River Valley in 1888.

But Mesa remained the popular name, and the post office allowed the name beginning January 1889.

Even the depression of 1893 was beginning to fade.

Learn how Goodyear got its start in 1898 producing bicycle and carriage tires, and how it soon grew to become the world’s largest tire company.

Paul W. Litchfield, Goodyear’s first CEO, joined the Goodyear team in 1900 and worked with the company for 59 years.

The Arizona Eastern Railway began asking for donations of right of way to build a rail line between Phoenix and Florence in 1902.

In 1910, the area officially was renamed Buckeye.

On May 17, 1912, he began selling property for a new town site in the area that today is along Arizona Avenue just south of Chandler Boulevard.

22, 1944, and the town of Goodyear was incorporated on Nov. It was part of the 16,000 acres purchased in 1917 for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company by executive Paul Litchfield.

The whole Goodyear, AZ and Litchfield Park, AZ area were settled based on the demand of Egyptian long fiber cotton which is documented heavily on the web and in print including a 1920 article featured in the Scientific American

Flora Mae Statler founded the city of Surprise in 1938 when it was just 1 square mile of farmland.

In 1941, with the United States on the verge of entering WWII, the Defense Department started construction on an aircraft plant on land they leased from Southwest Cotton Company.

22, 1944, and the town of Goodyear was incorporated on Nov.

After initially offering local farmers the opportunity to farm cotton with no takers, Goodyear sets up their own operation and in 1946 the town Goodyear, AZ is founded with 1500 residents.

In September 1954, Peter Kiewit Sons’ turned over the first production unit to Goodyear who placed it into operation and completed the first product withdrawal.

On March 20, 1956 it was announced that the plant was in full operation, approximately six months ahead of the four years it was scheduled to take.

Several different chemicals, including solvents such as TCE, acetone and methyl-ethyl-ketone, were used in manufacturing devices and were reportedly disposed of in drywells at PGAN. The Arizona Department of Health Services discovered the groundwater contamination in 1981.

In September, EPA issued an Administrative Order directing Unidynamics to proceed with soil and groundwater remediation as described in EPA's 1989 Record of Decision.

In 1990, after receiving approval from the necessary state and federal regulatory agencies, the DWP followed its usual pattern of public information.

The plan in 1993 was to build a nine-mile underground pipeline that would transport reclaimed water north from the Whittier plant, to the Upper San Gabriel Water aquifer running along the 605 freeway to the Santa Fe spreading grounds at the intersection of the 210 freeway in Irwindale.

For treatment of soil contamination, an SVE system began operation in 1994 and included a thermal oxidation unit equipped with an exhaust scrubber to reduce emissions.

Toilet-to-Tap was a no-show when the West Basin Water District decided in 1995 to begin its own water recycling program.

In 1998, perchlorate contamination was discovered and began to be included in the current groundwater monitoring regime.

In 2006, Crane Co. installed nine monitor wells, one groundwater extraction well and one groundwater re-injection well.

An extraction well (EA-06) and treatment system located at the Goodyear Community Park was installed in December 2007 to address expansion of the northeast portion of the plume.

An extraction well (EA-05) and treatment system located on Maricopa Flood Control District lands north of I-10 near Litchfield Road was operational at the end of March 2008.

Demolition of the buildings at the Unidynamics facility began in March and was completed in July 2009.

While doing research for a book to commemorate the city's 50th anniversary in 2010, City Clerk Sherry Aguilar discovered the error.

In 2013, three Subunit B monitoring wells were installed to achieve a better understanding of vertical migration of the contamination.

In 2014, EPA wrote the Proposed Plan, detailing an additional remedy for the MDWSA. The Proposed Plan was released by EPA for public comment.

History of Goodyear. (n.d.). Retrieved October 19, 2015, from http://goodyearaz.gov/History of Goodyear