| Fry Canyon | |
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| — Ghost town — | |
| Fry Canyon Lodge, one of the few structures in the area | |
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Fry Canyon
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| Country | United States |
| State | Utah |
| County | San Juan |
| Founded | 1950s |
| Abandoned | Late 1950s |
| Named for | The canyon of the same name |
| Elevation[1] | 5,374 ft (1,638 m) |
| GNIS feature ID | 1435562[1] |
Fry Canyon was a small community in San Juan County, Utah, USA, located in Fry Canyon, on State Route 95 and just south of White Canyon. Fry Canyon was a uranium boom town during the 1950s. The tiny hamlet, now a ghost town, is 19 miles westsouthwest of Woodenshoe Butte, and 8 miles westnorthwest of Natural Bridges National Monument.
The uranium mining caused some of the groundwater in Fry Canyon to become radioactive. The U.S. Geological Survey (with funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and other agencies) installed three permeable reactive barriers, containing three different reactive materials (foamed zero-valent iron (ZVI) pellets, bone charcoal pellets, amorphous ferric oxyhydroxide (AFO) slurry mixed with pea gravel), at the experimental site, which is managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.[2]
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