Marick Compound

The Marick Compound is a former mixed industrial site located at 1861 Llantano Road in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania. It is listed on the EPA's NPL, as a Superfund site, after it was revealed that several people had dumped stashes of digitalis, chemicals, and remains of a medication onto nearby Pine Creek.

It was revealed that in September 2004, when Hurricane Ivan hit Pine Valley, a part of the Compound has exploded after lightning struck one of the buildings full of chemicals and a gas line, making the explosion more fiery that smoke could be seen out of the Elk Green, Pine Valley, and Llanview areas, and as far as Reading, Jim Thorpe, Pottsville, and the Schuylkill River.

As recently as mid-2005, according to the