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Re: Apple ][ identification (follow up)

aiiadict@gmail.com wrote:

On Apr 11, 1:20 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:


And the groundwater that trickles out of them is beige and laden
with lead...   ;-)



  In the county I live in, we have a "transfer station" that
transports all of our
"garbage" to another state.  I think they dump it in the desert.  It
used to be a dump.  now they have grass growing all over it, probably
in anticipation of $800k luxury homes that will be built there in a
few years.

  the old dump (stopped being dump in ?1990?) has drainage ditches/
pipes built into it.  during the winter the water is collected in
tanks.  Then a big semi truck comes and sucks the liquid out of the
tanks into it's own.  The truck is labeled "leachate".  The tank is
driven about 40 miles away and dumped in the river.


That's very clever.  ;-(

Most landfills are prodigious producers of methane, which can be
collected by pipes and used to generate electricity and heat water.

After a decade or so, methane production starts to tail off, so that
after three or four decades, it's pretty much over.


  lead, mercury, lithium, solvents, oil products, paints, etc etc
etc.

  in the river.

  so we don't have to deal with it trickling all over our hills...  we
want it to rain down on us next season.


Since evaporated water is "distilled", you don't have to worry about
seeing the leachate in rain, but you do have to worry about effects
on the oceans and sealife.

-michael

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