veni veni veni posted:

General Butt Naked

thatbastardken posted:

I'm not sure what the relationship between Hancock Prospecting, CSR, and James Hardie was but they were all into that poo poo.

teen witch posted:

https://www.epa.gov/superfund/search-superfund-sites-where-you-live

Sleep easy

quote:

The 4-acre Van Der Horst USA Corporation site is located in Terrell, Texas. A chromium and iron electroplating facility operated at the site from the 1950s until 2006. Plating operations generated spent kerosene, wastewater treatment sludge and chromium-contaminated wastewater. Facility operations contaminated soil, sediment and groundwater. Site investigations and long-term cleanup planning are ongoing.

Kitfox88 posted:

None near me yet, living in the boonies pays off once again.

As long as I ignore that I live within 20 miles of dozens of active and abandoned fracking wells.

Kiebland posted:

I live about 20 minutes from the Bluegrass Army Depot, where they store and destroy fun stuff like sarin and VX gas.

sandoval county sheriff office posted:

After conducting a search, the County has determined that it does not maintain or control records responsive to your request.

Elden Lord Godfrey posted:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/inve...-htmlstory.html

This was likely years and years ago, but didn't a goon at some point tip us off in another thread that her uncle may have been the Tylenol killer? Is this the same incident, and is this the same person?

Irisi posted:

Hexavalent Chromium. A notorious carcinogen...that is a brownish powder when dry, and is bright green dissolved in water.

Busket Posket posted:

Miller, who was convicted of three counts of murder in 1999, requested to be killed by nitrogen hypoxia (essentially suffocation) because he’s scared of needles. After the state said they weren't ready to use the untested method, a federal judge issued a halt in the execution order.

Tenkaris posted:

Ahh yes, that's why we can't use the vastly more humane method of execution, it's UNTESTED. We just don't know what can go wrong with hypoxia!

Tenkaris posted:

Ahh yes, that's why we can't use the vastly more humane method of execution, it's UNTESTED. We just don't know what can go wrong with hypoxia!

Free Market Mambo posted:

The cruelty is the point.

HopperUK posted:

loving hell. Great post.

Kitfox88 posted:

Yeah, very good creeping tension and horror! The powerless anger and fury didn't hit at all till the end.

Irisi posted:

JacquelineDempsey posted:

These excellent write-ups have me thinking about writing one about the lake in my hometown, Onondaga Lake. It's been called The Most Polluted Lake in the US, and regularly makes lists of Most Polluted Bodies of Water in the world.

To give a tease... as early as 1901, ice-harvesting was banned. Yes, over a century ago, with far less knowledge about pollution than we'd have for decades, people already knew the water was bad. Swimming was banned in 1940, and fishing --- not just for eating, but even sport --- banned in 1972.

I was born in 1974, so the lake has been a known hazard forever in my mind. Still, I grew up three blocks away, and went down to the park along the shoreline constantly as a kid/teen to sketch nature, collect cool rocks, and watch the few boaters from the local marina who braved the foul water.

Water so foul that scuba divers needed to wear safety orange suits for visibility (which was nil), and when they surfaced, their suits were pitch black and had to be trashed.

More when I'm not on my phone, if folks would like?

Irisi posted:

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Scathach posted:

My husband is from Haysville, Kansas. The cute little stream he played in as a kid?

https://www.salon.com/2018/08/28/state-waited-years-before-they-alerted-kansans-about-contaminated-drinking-water-report/

Yeah, speaking of dry cleaning chemicals here's a gem. I guess we don't have to wonder why he had super rare, non-genetic bone cancer starting at 17. Now he has a chunk of his spine missing and nerve damage in his back. Luckily it was slow growing and responded to chemo, and he was also lucky he was young and healthy otherwise. Glad we didn't want to have kids because who knows wtf would happen.

Irisi posted:

This is a photo of a 1962 Glasgow family atop a small hill. It was a popular place for the working class children of Glasgows' notoriously poor East End to play on. It wasn't a very big hill, nor did grass or trees grow on it, but there were very few parks in the area, which had suffered very badly from bombing in WWII, as the Germans targeted the Clydeside munitions, rail-yards and shipping hubs of the area. Adults know it was a big dump for slag and spoil from the mining/heavy industry of Glasgows' East End, but the kids didn't. It was just a good place to play.

Those children of the 1950s/60s called it The Sugarolly Mountains. There were three mountains, mainly composed of a brownish, almost crystalline powder up the top, with bigger lumps of dark-brown to black sticklike lumps down the bottom. (Sugar-allie water was a Scottish drink sometimes made from dissolving sugar and liquorice in water, one can see how the children got to the name from there).

The children used to go sledding down it on bits of scrap metal from the nearby railway sidings and the abandoned industrial works of the nearby Monklands Canal. Their mums would always be able to tell when the children had been playing on the Mountain, as they would be covered in fine brown powder. Or if they had been on it when it was raining, they would have streaks of greenish-brown on their skin and clothes.

With the expansion outwards from the overcrowded slums to large council estates on the old industrial lands of the East-End, the Sugarolly mountains were flattened, and atop them was build the housing estate of Cranhill. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranhill), high-rise flats that were supposed to provide a healthier, happier life for the poor residents of the city. (spoiler alert, it didn't, because dumping 10,000 people into an isolated estate without cars, public transport, shops or much in the way of entertainment rapidly makes the place go downhill and creates gang problems, rampant drug addiction and violence, a story repeated the world over in the 1960-1980s)

Cranhill had extra problems on top of that though. In winter, when it was very wet, a weird dark goo seeped up from between the cracks in the concrete paving around the high rise flats. When it rained, the puddles that had sat for a while turned a strange greenish colour. The Monklands Canal had been infilled by the 1970s by the M8 Motorway, but before it was filled in, it too was often that odd, unnatural green, residents remembered.

By the 1990s Cranhill and surrounding areas had been dubbed "Smack City" by the newspapers, with some of the highest levels of deprivation and drug use, and lowest life expectancy in Western Society (a mere 54 years old for men in the 90s!) It's been called "The Glasgow Effect" and there seems to be no one specific cause, more a perfect storm of a dozen different things.

But even so, people in Cranhill died very young. If it wasn't from heroin or gang violence, it was from cancer, or lung disease.

No one ever seems to have looked into what those strange green puddles were made of, what that black goo was, what those children of the 1950s and 60s' were breathing in atop the crystalline Sugarolly Mountains. They were the abject poor of Glasgows' East End. No one particularly cared.

In the early 2000s' the process of redeveloping the East End kicked in. By 2020 the substandard housing of Cranhill was mostly razed to the ground: the high-rise flats demolished and the bumpy, hilly land scraped flat, new topsoil brought in, and nice new houses built. By now it's impossible to know what was in the Sugarolly Mountains or the Monklands Canal, buried under motorway and concrete, and I strongly suspect Glasgow City Council would like to keep it that way.

But not too far away from Cranhill, there was another chemical processing plant, closed down in the 1960s and demolished, that fed into a small, culverted stream called The Polmadie Burn. Unlike Monklands, it was not drained and infilled, just covered over. It rises to the surface in a local park, and it too has the same unnatural green colour.



They tested it recently. What's in it?
Hexavalent Chromium. A notorious carcinogen...that is a brownish powder when dry, and is bright green dissolved in water.

Milo and POTUS posted:

That's incredible.




I had no idea the Germans were bombing glasgow in ww2

Milo and POTUS posted:

That's incredible.

I had no idea the Germans were bombing glasgow in ww2

Brawnfire posted:

I looked up asbestos tailings and I'm still not sure what they were chewing "like gum"

Busket Posket posted:

This delicious, sticky mix of residual mining chemicals and blue asbestos bits. Like the edge of cotton candy that got wet and congealed, but more deadly.