jbellinger ([personal profile] jbellinger) wrote in [personal profile] marycatelli 2021-06-27 09:28 pm (UTC)

One summer we camped by a lake near Springfield IL (cheaper than hotels), that had a no-swimming warning. Not because of radiation from the adjacent nuclear plant, but because it was the "cooling pond" for the plant, and never froze. Because it never froze, things that winter would normally kill flourished--including a brain-eating amoeba. Sometimes "green and pleasant" isn't all its cracked up to be.

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