Oak Ridge Scary stuff (Knoxville, Chattanooga: sales, lease, property taxes)

[bbkaren]

GT, that's "Progresso"! lol!

eta: Duh. I just saw your previous post. I'm a dope.

[jabogitlu]

Not a big fan of healthy soups, at all. Give me something loaded with sodium!!!

[gemkeeper]

Originally Posted by bbkaren

GT, that's "Progresso"! lol!

eta: Duh. I just saw your previous post. I'm a dope.

I'm going to let it slip by me this time, bbkaren, but only if you keep the spell check open for me - please!

[bbkaren]

You've got yourself a deal!

[ann13820]

Originally Posted by SandyOne

Who "told" you? Are there railroad tracks to the quarries? Abandoned quarries always fill up with water. What else would you expect from a hole in the ground open to the sky? This is Tennessee, it rains a lot here. At least, it used to.

And if you went skinny dipping in crystal clear water, wouldn't you have been able to see all those rail cars full of toxic waste if they really were there? Rails cars are really large objects.

SandyOne, it was actually in a report being published by the govt about the rail cars and the quarries. The report was published in the '80s and I have no idea what/where it is/was. But it was real. I had a friend who worked in the printing office - he showed it to me. It's real. 30' of water is pretty deep to be able to see to the bottom.

Hey, Mr. Watson was my Chemistry teacher! One day he said that I smelled like I'd been in a tobacco factory that burned down when I came into class ... smokin' in the girls' room. I think I got an 'A' in the class anyway.

But that has nothing to do with living in OR. ... look at this -- this is my skinny-dipping quarry: (I'm 54 and still alive with no signs of cancer - only one of my friends has died from cancer (lung) and he was a heavy smoker)

google "Oak Ridge" "rock quarry" and this is a few items down from the top:
Wiley InterScience :: Session Cookies (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112747094/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 - broken link) [I don't know if this is going to come through as a link, but it was published in the Wiley Interscience Remediation Journal, Volume 2, Issue 4, pages 441 - 446, August 2006. Believe it.
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Telerobots for remote disposal of mixed waste

Charles R. Yemington, James E. StoneCharles R. Yemington, P.E., is engineering vice president of Sonsub, Inc. of Houston, Texas. James E. Stone is manager, Environmental Management Department, in Martin Marietta Energy Systems at DOE's Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The work at Kerr Hollow Quarry at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is being performed by Sonsub, Inc., under the direction of Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., under contract DE-AC05-840R21400 with the U.S. Department of Energy.

Abstract
Two remote-controlled robotic submersible vehicles and an automated shredder are helping remove and dispose of highly reactive, sometimes explosive materials, dumped into a water-filled quarry at the U.S. Department of Energy's reservation in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Human workers never enter the four-acre site, except for well-planned equipment maintenance and to shoot holes from a protected but into the retrieved containers, releasing pressure and exposing the contents to air and water. During its approximately two years of operation, the $8 million project has retrieved more than 15,000 items from the thirty feet of water at the bottom of the quarry.

[ann13820]

Those PhD's get paid a LOT of money to move to Oak Ridge.

[Beretta]

Originally Posted by ann13820

Those PhD's get paid a LOT of money to move to Oak Ridge.

Some call it blood money.

[gemkeeper]

Call me naive, but I am amazed to read some of the reports that come out of the gov't closets like the one in ann13820's post.

Love Canal, Three Mile Island, ND missle sites, tobacco research of the 1960's ... so much that we do not know. It saddens me that there seems to be no concern for the welfare of innocent citizens - including children!

[Beretta]

Originally Posted by gemthornton

Call me naive, but I am amazed to read some of the reports that come out of the gov't closets like the one in ann13820's post.

Love Canal, Three Mile Island, ND missle sites, tobacco research of the 1960's ... so much that we do not know. It saddens me that there seems to be no concern for the welfare of innocent citizens - including children!

What is scarier is what we don't know!

[gemkeeper]

You are obviously right, SMG! That is the scariest thought!