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Lowry Landfill, Colorado. Hazardous waste and garbage mixture. Photo by N. Gaggiani, 1978.

U.S. Geological Survey · 1978 · Gaggiani, N.

A shallow channel of dark standing water running between raw earth banks, refuse scattered along the right bank and across the fill behind, with transmission towers on the skyline.
From the archive · U.S. Geological Survey · 1978 Lowry Landfill, Colorado. Hazardous waste and garbage mixture. Photo by N. Gaggiani, 1978. Gaggiani, N.

U.S. Geological Survey, USGS Library Photographic Collection U.S. government work; public domain. Archive record ↗ · Rights

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Hazardous waste and garbage mixed together at the Lowry Landfill in 1978. The standing water is the mechanism the photograph is about: what dissolves in a fill leaves it by the groundwater.

Shows: Waste and water in contact, and the ponding that carries the one into the other.

What this does not let you conclude: What was in it, or where it went. The site's contaminant record belongs to its regulatory file and not to this frame, and the Survey's caption names no substance.

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