[CAUT] Steinway verdigris

Horace Greeley hgreeley at sonic.net
Sun Jan 9 03:24:15 MST 2011


Hi, Roger,

At 08:11 PM 1/8/2011, you wrote:

>>It would be very interesting to do some soil analysis of the land 
>>in and around the plant in Astoria, especially around the old 
>>foundry.  When I was first there (in the late 60's), even in the 
>>Summer time, the ground around the foundry was crunchy from the 
>>build up of all the nitrates/ites that had been dumped there.
>
>
>Don't dig too deep X_{  You may turn as green as verdigris.  I would 
>bet that site will be loaded with heavy metals.

Precisely...though, I wouldn't be as concerned about verdigris as I 
would cyanide....

Cheers!

Horace



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