It is now 2019. The cleanup has been completed and the Tar Ponds site, open to the public since 2013, now houses a playground, walking track, sports field, outdoor concert stage and many other features. Some residents however still feel that the encapsulated toxins still lurk a few feet down and may someday emerge as they did in the infamous Love Canal in NY State near Niagara Falls in the late 1970s. On Sept 12 2014, Aerosmith played at Open Hearth Park and some patrons paid money to camp at the former Coke Ovens site - how quickly we forget!