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  <title>Ballard Pits Photo Gallery</title>
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      A collection of photos from the Ballard Pits state Superfund site
    
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    <title>The West Pit Prior To Removal Action</title>
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    <description>Tires are scattered in the West Pit.</description>
    
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Robin Maiorisi</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2011-08-22T18:59:31Z</dc:date>
    <dc:type>Image</dc:type>
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    <title>The West Pit Flooded</title>
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    <description>The West Pit after an overnight rain, before removal actions began.</description>
    
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Robin Maiorisi</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2011-08-22T18:59:32Z</dc:date>
    <dc:type>Image</dc:type>
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    <title>The East Pit</title>
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    <description>A view of the East Pit in dry conditions.</description>
    
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Robin Maiorisi</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2011-08-22T18:59:32Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Shallow Digging Reveals Contaminants</title>
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    <description>Contaminants can clearly be seen in this cross-section of earth.</description>
    
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Robin Maiorisi</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2011-08-22T18:59:33Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Sludge Material Unearthed</title>
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    <description>Digging deeper reveals large pockets of sludge accumulated in the years waste was dumped here.</description>
    
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Robin Maiorisi</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2011-08-22T18:59:33Z</dc:date>
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    <title>A Cross Section Reveals More Sludge </title>
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    <description>Another sample of the representative sludge material encountered during the removal action in the west pit.</description>
    
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Robin Maiorisi</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2011-08-22T18:59:34Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Stabilizing Contaminated Material For Transport</title>
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    <description>Machinery mixed cement kiln dust to the material in the west pit to form a solid material to be transported to the landfill.</description>
    
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Robin Maiorisi</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2011-08-22T18:59:34Z</dc:date>
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    <title>The West Pit Is Backfilled</title>
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    <description>The middle of the process of backfilling the excavation of the West Pit with clean fill material.</description>
    
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Robin Maiorisi</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2011-08-22T18:59:35Z</dc:date>
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    <title>The Completed West Pit And Monitoring Wells</title>
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    <description>The completed West Pit after the completion of the removal action. The two groundwater monitoring wells can be seen in the photo. </description>
    
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Robin Maiorisi</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2011-08-22T18:59:35Z</dc:date>
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    <title>The East Pit</title>
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    <description>Representative material is gathered from the East Pit to be used in a treatability study.</description>
    
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Robin Maiorisi</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2011-08-22T18:59:36Z</dc:date>
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