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Landfall sitting and abandoned coal mines in Contra Costa County, California

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  • 1992
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  • The California Geographer 32: 1-18
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  • The recent efforts of California's Contra Costa County to solve its solid waste disposal problem provide another excellent illustration of the potential for historical geography. In this case, the proposal to locate a landfill near an area of abandoned coal mines raised a number of critical environmental issues, such as the threat of the abandoned workings serving as conduits for leachate and methane should the landfill's control systems fail, thus possibly impacting adjacent properties. Although this particular landfill site was ultimately not selected, the r esearch described demonstrated the compatibility of the proposed land fill and the historic mining sites. It also brought to light many details of a little known facet of early resource utilization in California, namely, coal production in an era of industrialization based on steam power.
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