• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Here I thought all the parks converted from superfund sites here in NJ were wild. Those anthrax spores can survive buried indefinitely depending on the climate.

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      14 hours ago

      It’s funny in a way around here they like to build condominiums on top of polluted sites.

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        14 hours ago

        That’s happening right down the street from me, actually. It’s my understanding they take the polluted top layers of soil and either bury them somewhere safe nearby or they transport them away.

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          13 hours ago

          They just lay plastic sheeting over the top, put fill in, and build on it at the places I’m familiar with. One of the sites they had to do some remediation sucking out water from the ground to dispose of some of it.