Photos of Life near the Aurora Energy Powerplant is Dirty – Mar 16 – Apr 17, 2012
front porch landing 1319 1st aveback porch black falloutblack stuff on handrail back porchand more black on handrail back handi cap ramp areablack stuff on furniture that had been covered since October 2011and more….the snow that slid off the roofgrey smoke several minutes later….truck parked on coal pile with dozer pushing… “NEC” location as described in EPA Preliminery Report located upstream of the Wedgewood Wildlife Refuge and Creamers Field Wild Bird MigratoryMelted Icicle in a bucketgrey smoke 04/17/12 9:50am
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This set of photos shows what I saw when I was in the neighborhood: Black snow; fresh snowfall turning from white to grey within hours to a day of falling.
In winter, on the rare times I drove down the Steese Hwy from Haglebarger intersection, I several times saw very dramatic dark to reddish=brown clouds spread horizontally across the whole city. Once I called the Newsminer and suggested that this would make a dramatic front page photo; they did not send out anyone to photograph it (I had no camera nor other picture-taking device); to get local advertisers, the local paper wants to focus on the laudable things, don’t they?
A friend in his 80s who grew up in ‘our fair city,’ agrees that the snow always got turned black from the coal soot, and as a paramedic he saw this continuing throughout his career, though he moved out of downtown to live.
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This set of photos shows what I saw when I was in the neighborhood: Black snow; fresh snowfall turning from white to grey within hours to a day of falling.
In winter, on the rare times I drove down the Steese Hwy from Haglebarger intersection, I several times saw very dramatic dark to reddish=brown clouds spread horizontally across the whole city. Once I called the Newsminer and suggested that this would make a dramatic front page photo; they did not send out anyone to photograph it (I had no camera nor other picture-taking device); to get local advertisers, the local paper wants to focus on the laudable things, don’t they?
A friend in his 80s who grew up in ‘our fair city,’ agrees that the snow always got turned black from the coal soot, and as a paramedic he saw this continuing throughout his career, though he moved out of downtown to live.