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Date: | Fri, 21 Feb 1997 20:57:06 -0800 |
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Hello out there. We are excavating a kitchen dump on top of a cesspool dating
1891 - 1927 here on the campus of the University of La Verne. I say cesspool
because the County of Los Angeles Health Dept. tells me it's too early for a
septic tank and that the main difference is a cesspool had no floor, only walls
and roof. I've lowered a video camera down in and of course can't tell yet
whether there is a floor or not. Questions---no methane gas detected, if we
get some big holes in the roof, OK to dig and screen? Would you do it? Am I
missing an obvious health risk here? The cesspool was built for the Lordsburg
Hotel, never used as a hotel, served as a college from 1891 until demolished in
1927. As to what I saw with the camera, "Things! Wonderful things!"
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