Enviromentally speaking does it really matter to the
enviroment where you dump trash.
Don Ferguson
--- Coalbunny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Funny thing I found is that a lot of the people I
> hear promoting the
> Slabs is the old '60s "peace/love/smoke a joint"
> hippy crew. Guess
> they weren't AS environmentally conscious as they
> claimed....
> Carl
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 20:05:36 -0700
> > From: Fred Stevens K2FRD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: Trash
> >
> > With all due respect to those who are fond of the
> Slabs, but I spent 2 1/2 weeks there last month
> (Oct) and found the entire place to be trashed with
> a lot more than beer cans and stray bags of garbage.
> Burned out RVs, trailers, busses, and vehicles;
> abandoned junker and junked RVs and vehicles
> partially stripped for parts; on the main corner is
> a junk yard with a mostly disassembled mobile home
> with someone living in it; old used tires, piles of
> garbage, incinerated piles of garbage, huge
> bonfire-sized burn pits, broken glass (ubiquitous)
> add to the visual and physical detraction of the
> area. I drove around looking for a site which
> wouldn't require extensive cleaning, even way out in
> the "outback" BLM area and found many or most of the
> sites to be unusable or even dangerous to park (note
> - I looked around the perimeter areas rather than in
> the central parts which might be better). I finally
> settled on a site next to the canal where it took me
> several days to clean it up t
> o make it livable; for some of the garbage, I dug a
> pit and buried it while for some of the other junk
> (including parts of a metal desk, parts of an RV
> stove, parts of an RV furnace, larger plastic gas
> cans, fence wire, to name some of the identifiable
> stuff) I just concentrated it in a pile off to one
> side out of the way.
> >
> > I understand some people bought the Slabs a few
> years ago with the intent of developing it or
> otherwise capitalizing on it, but it failed for lack
> of clean-up money. Whether this is true or not, I've
> worked as a consultant to land developers for site
> preparation and I roughly calculate it would require
> one-half to a million dollars to clean up the Slabs.
> This is not inclusive of the adjacent BLM property.
> >
> > While I definitely see the attraction of Slab City
> with its quietness (Marine munitions not
> withstanding), open skies, comradery, and freebie
> cost, I was turned off by the environmental
> degradation of the site. Hell, I drove 3000 miles to
> get there. I shall not return.
> >
>
> --
> The very existence of flame-throwers proves that
> some time, somewhere,
> someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set
> those people over
> there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get
> the job done...."
>
>
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