This is one of the broken old-fashioned lamps by the side of a pretty curving walkway along Glen Cove Creek. It looks like it might have been a nice place to walk, except the whole thing is fenced in. Of course there are people like me, and the man walking his dog, who will sneak around a fence just to see what is there. At one time, to the left in the photo, they started to build condos. There were cement beams three stories high. Suddenly the construction stopped. Turns out that the whole place was a Superfund site! There had been a town dump here, and next to that, a tungsten processing factory which had been there for years. They decided it was not safe to build there, and perhaps 10 or 15 years later, the structures were torn down. Get this, now they are once again proposing a huge development down here! Hotels, condos, retail space. If it was contaminated then, why is it OK now?
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