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Kind of impressed that slate managed to call an incorporated city in a different county a “suburb in sf”.
The whole bay area is SF to anyone not from the area. The city/county boundaries aren’t what people care about when describing a general area. Most people from london don’t live in “city of london”
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Sounds remarkably similar to the Love Canal in the history of dirty industry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal
The Love Canal story is such an incredible cluster. When the chemical company sold the land to the city, they mentioned the waste and indicated they take no responsibility for it once the city acquires the land. Then "Not long after having taken control of the land, the Niagara Falls School Board proceeded to develop the land, including construction activity that substantially breached containment structures in a num…
The worst part about it is that it was then used to champion asinine legislation that hurts the people who want to do things right.
So now every municipality who wants to buy some old poisoned dump on the cheap (because it's poisoned and that restricts development) and not be idiots with it (e.g. turn it into a park or a parking lot or some other use not involving serious excavation) can't actually buy the land and do so because no sane company will sell it to them because they could just go and do something stupid and then turn around and make the company pay.
It's like the municipal equivalent of taking a free boat off someone's lawn in order to get an engine core and then acting like you got swindled when you find out it costs money or labor to get rid of a boat and then having the state pass a law making boat owners liable for disposal in perpetuity.
I wish I had more to point at rn but, hemp crops can help pull toxins from soil. Other crops too , can help with a "brown zone" but hemp (and it's cousin) get more press.
Normal toxic site cleanups that I have read about usually involve at minimum replacing topsoil to a depth of several feet.
I wish I had more to point at rn but, hemp crops can help pull toxins from soil. Other crops too , can help with a "brown zone" but hemp (and it's cousin) get more press.
https://usfblogs.usfca.edu/sustainability/2022/02/03/mycorem...
Emeryville is near the tunnel: https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The whole bay area is SF to anyone not from the area. The city/county boundaries aren’t what people care about when describing a general area. Most people from london don’t live in “city of london”
We live in Greater London, with the Mayor of London (the City has a Lord Mayor). We tend to adjust our local government boundaries to match development, or create green belts to prevent sprawl.
I wish I had more to point at rn but, hemp crops can help pull toxins from soil. Other crops too , can help with a "brown zone" but hemp (and it's cousin) get more press.
What do you do with the hemp once it has absorbed the toxins?
Kind of impressed that slate managed to call an incorporated city in a different county a “suburb in sf”.
Emeryville is a 10 minute drive from SF, or 1 mile away from a BART station that gets you to SF in 15 minutes. It is a suburb of SF or a suburb in the SF Bay Area.
I wish I had more to point at rn but, hemp crops can help pull toxins from soil. Other crops too , can help with a "brown zone" but hemp (and it's cousin) get more press.
Even if true, that would only clean the top few inches of soil (whatever depth the roots go), right? Normal toxic site cleanups that I have read about usually involve at minimum replacing topsoil to a depth of several feet.
Kind of impressed that slate managed to call an incorporated city in a different county a “suburb in sf”.
The whole bay area is SF to anyone not from the area. The city/county boundaries aren’t what people care about when describing a general area. Most people from london don’t live in “city of london”