Arsenic mining is forever... Hound atop arsenic spoilheap, still splendidly bald despite about a century of abandonment. The heap, not the lurcher. The lurcher is not particularly abandoned.
There's a very frightening stream on the other side of the valley - well, two frightening streams. One of them has very VERY clean rocks at the bottom. Honestly it's like it's a stream of bleach. And the other one is bright scary orange. Neither of them have anything growing in them.
I don't let the dogs go near those, but they never have any poison sand on them by the time we get home (about a mile away), I've tried wiping them over and nothing comes off. It's convenient having Teflon dogs.
Yeah, soil isn't a miracle lock-up for everything...
Good, good :) (And I hope you didn't think I was implying you might be careless regarding this stuff because that wasn't my intention, it's just having worked in this area it's bit of a pet topic of mine - apparently one of the county councils down there somewhere used to use mining spoil to keep the weeds down in their car parks!)
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Date: 2014-07-13 11:25 am (UTC)But yeah, if the doggies tend to lick their paws after walks, you probably don't want them eating the dust...
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Date: 2014-07-13 08:27 pm (UTC)I don't let the dogs go near those, but they never have any poison sand on them by the time we get home (about a mile away), I've tried wiping them over and nothing comes off. It's convenient having Teflon dogs.
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Date: 2014-07-14 04:57 pm (UTC)Good, good :) (And I hope you didn't think I was implying you might be careless regarding this stuff because that wasn't my intention, it's just having worked in this area it's bit of a pet topic of mine - apparently one of the county councils down there somewhere used to use mining spoil to keep the weeds down in their car parks!)