Word: sites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since then the island's right to its title has been challenged, both by those who feel the actual site was further south and by those who feel it was further north...
Almost 400 years after Columbus sailed the ocean blue, the actual site of his arrival in the new world is still a subject of hot debate...
...dump may indeed be part of the solution. The federal Superfund pays Casmalia Resources to take wastes collected in the cleanup of the notorious Stringfellow Acid Pits near Los Angeles. But even this up-to-date site is a problem for the 300 people who live just over the hills in the town of Casmalia. A little more than a year ago, it seems, fumes started drifting down over the town. Jim Postiff has lived in Casmalia for 20 years, and the odor was new to him. "The first few times we smelled it," he remembers, "we called the fire...
Which sounds reasonable. The site is remote. The geology is well charted. The facility has been designed to handle dangerous industrial poisons. But down in Casmalia, it still stinks...
Casmalia Resources is open 24 hours, and every day about a hundred trucks roll in and out. The vast site could be on Mars. Hills and canyons are denuded. The great dirt expanses where steel drums are buried dwarf the bulldozers and moon-suited workers. Dozens of deep pools of dark, still liquids, interconnected by a web of white pipes running uphill and down, pock the landscape. Oily sludge is stirred into the ground. A tanker truck squirts full blast into a waste pond. With its tidy system of interlacing roads and sharply etched contours, the dump is as neat...