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Posted Wed Jun 18 2008: from Intelligencer-Journal, via RedOrbit:
Old Landfill Gunk Fouls Trail At Park http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1213802709
 ... A vegetation-free area extends for about 25 feet across the embankment... [The sign lists] a host of pollutants that might be present at various levels, including iron, nickel, mercury, zinc, arsenic, chloroethane and benzene... Jim Warner, executive director of the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority, said leachates are an old story with old landfills. There were no environmental safeguards, he said. Still, he noted, over many years, the sites do tend to flush themselves clean.
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