For eighty-two years, The New Jersey Zinc Company operated two smelting facilities at the base of Blue Mountain in Palmerton, Pennsylvania. During their time of operation, adequate pollution control technology did not exist and the two zinc smelters filled the atmosphere with pollutants, including sulfur dioxide and various heavy metals, primarily cadmium, zinc, and lead. The greatest amount of pollution produced was emitted between 1918 and 1962, largely because of the zinc needed for World War I and II. At that time sulfur dioxide was being emitted at 3,300-3,600 pounds per hour, cadmium was being released at 47 tons per year, lead at 95 tons per year, and zinc at 3,575 tons per year. As a result of the pollutants released during the decades of zinc smelting, much of the vegetation and wildlife were devastated in the town of Palmerton and the Lehigh Gap, the area where the Lehigh River cuts through Blue Mountain, forming a gap in the Kittatinny Ridge. By the time the zinc smelters ceased operation in 1980, the ecosystem at the Lehigh Gap was so ravaged that the land, which was extensively eroded, consisted only of subsoil and rocks. Even lichens, fungi, and bacteria could not survive in the heavymetal filled soil. In 1983, this 2,000-3,000 acre area of land was so contaminated that it was federally recognized as a Superfund Site, placed on the national priorities list, and titled the Palmerton Zinc Pile Superfund Site. In 2002, after other attempts to revegetate Blue Mountain, a group lead by a retired high school biology teacher, Dan Kunkle, obtained 756 acres of land which they planned to remediate. They called it the Lehigh Gap Wildlife Refuge in the hopes that it could one day go from a Superfund Site contaminated with hazardous waste, to a wellestablished ecosystem that vegetation and wildlife could once again inhabit. The group began the revegetation effort by looking to nature for a solution and attempting to find a way to accelerate the process. Because native, warm-season grasses were able to tolerate the heavy metals in the soil on the outside of the highly contaminated area, they were hopeful that they might also take root in a more contaminated area. Thus began the key to the revegetation effort. The group seeded the mountain with native warm-season grasses, which not only grew successfully, but also helped to stem the erosion problem and keep the heavy metals contained within the soil. The revegetation effort was a success and by 2003, after just one year of remediation, the Refuge property had already started to become a thriving grassland. Today the Refuge provides not only a safe home for numerous plant and animal species, but it also acts as the Lehigh Gap Nature Center, which provides numerous educational and recreational opportunities to the public. The story of the successful reclamation efforts at the Lehigh Gap is one filled with optimism and inspiration. Because it is such an interesting area of study, hundreds of people have conducted research on the Refuge property. This annotated bibliography contains much of the information needed to help people discover appropriate sources for their own research interests, regardless of their level of study.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Yeah, if someone's harassing you over PMs, just PM one of the mods.
On an unrelated note: Who else here has had strange dreams involving My Little Pony?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I had one this morning in which I was Applejack and I was on the run from the Stallions in Black.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
I have them infrequently. I had one about a year ago involving some Best Buy-like store that sold weird MLP pillows that looked like knockoffs of the characters.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
I mentioned it once in the pony thread, but I've had two such dreams. The weirdest part is they both involved kind of the same thing.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I...never really noticed before, but running from the Men in Black is a weirdly common theme in my dreams.
Not, like, Will-Smith-movie "Men in Black", but weird "agents" in black suits who want me for some purpose and never reveal what they're doing.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I kinda want to play SimCity 4 but I don't feel like rebooting into Windows.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Some bitch stole my computer at the library and I got tired of arguing with her old ass, so I came home.
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Can you read private messages?
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
I can see dad people
musics
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
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