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🌱 How Wampum once helped move waste from Apollo’s nuclear dump

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  • How Wampum once helped move waste from Apollo’s nuclear dump

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Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Warm with clouds and sun, with a high of 77 and low of 57 degrees.
  • Saturday: A heavy t-storm in the p.m., temps: high: 78, low: 42.
  • Sunday: Mostly cloudy; windy, chilly, with a high of 49 and low of 29 degrees.

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• Crews Finally Tear Into Apollo's Long-Hidden Nuclear Dump (hoodline.com) — Wampum is cited as a past rail transload point for sealed nuclear waste containers from the Shallow Land Disposal Area cleanup near Apollo, a project now finally underway after years of delay. Crews have begun carefully excavating contaminated trenches under tight monitoring, with work expected to last years and involve heavy truck and rail movements across the region.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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