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To: average joe who wrote (4746)	6/17/2008 9:46:01 AM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Respond to of 5290

I think Lex's plan was a work in process..... you know Supervillians "Never Say Die"

To: average joe who wrote (4746)	6/17/2008 6:36:26 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5290

It's not really in the mountains even though it is called the Rocky Mountain National Arsenal. It is on the prairie very near DIA (Denver International Airport). When they closed it, they couldn't figure out how to dispose of the 'stored' stuff partly because much of it was buried in various locations around the Arsenal and maps seemed too scarce or unavailable ... and partly because its already a dump. So they just filled in the holes, erected a fence around it, and called it a nature preserve. A few years ago people who live near the Arsenal were complaining about an abnormally high number of birth defects and blamed ground water contamination. The government built some elaborate water treatment facilities and I haven't heard much about it since. I have never figured out why they didn't just relocate the trailer court but, oh well. *"Inject Liquid Into the Ground:* In 1961, the Army decided that the best way to dispose of toxic waste from napalm production (among other things) was to drill a 12,000-foot-deep well in the Rocky Mountains and inject the bad stuff down it into the crust of the Earth. From 1962 to 1966, the Army deposited 165 million gallons of toxic waste into this hole in the Earth. Unfortunately, the injections probably triggered earthquakes in the region, and the Army shut the operation down. As seismologist Dave Wolny explained, "If you are doing deep well injection, you are altering the stress on the underlying rocks and at some point, the stress will be relieved by generating an earthquake."