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edit: Don't do this. Embrace modernity and don't pollute the soil.

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[โ€“] Serinus@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was reading about one where the oil was contaminated with some truly terrible shit, dioxin maybe? Several people died. They turned that whole area into a Superfund site.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri