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Monday September 21, 2015

Dave Bonta September 21, 2015

The wind is out of the east, and, slight as it is, carries an acrid, chemical smell from the sewage plant and the quarry’s dull roar.

Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged quarry, sewage treatment plant
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