Blog post: swansont: Boom Boom

The disposal of drums of sodium into Lake Lenore, an alkaline lake in the Grand Coulee area of eastern Washington State, in 1947 by the War Assets Administration.

[A]fter WWII, the US government found they had some extra sodium no one wanted, so they disposed of it.

In a lake. Full of water. And by the way, it was

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Oh, and all that surplus WWII sodium? While that would destroy the ecology of a lake, in this case it was already a heavily alkaline lake with no fish in it. While I wouldn’t say this was a great thing to do, at least they thought to minimize the impact. But cripes: don’t try this at home.