Bill,
Did you per chance see the two hour show on the History channel about the Crumbling of America? It covers everything in the infrastructure of the country and based on what I see around here is pretty accurate. Roads being closed due to no maintenance, dangerous dams, bad water lines and tunnels, and it goes on and on. Most of the infrastructure is over 50 years old and has not been maintained. We are having a 60% raise in our sewer rates this month as our lines are old and falling apart. I don't mind it if they use it to repair the system and don't do the usual and give the city council their big pay raises. Our water system needs to be repaired and now the toxic sludge from the Iron Mountain Dam is starting to get so close to the lake where the drinking water comes from they are having to rush to try and get a pumping station in to dredge it out of the water. The Federal Govt. has spend millions on that place and still can't figure a way to stop it. It is considered one of the most toxic places in the country if not the world. A lot of money was raised several years ago to try and do something about that, but it vanished somehow and no one knows where.
Here is a link to some of the information about the mine. It is an older one but do a search and you will find pages about it including some about the superfund clean up that is now underway.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...MN9Q185QAK.DTL
Ron
