On Dec 3, 2:04 pm, "Wolfgang" wrote:
O.k., we'd all like to bust up a big dam or shut down a mine or a power
plant or drop a dime on a major polluter or a big time poacher......but, for
most of us, that just ain't gonna happen. So, what's a boy to do to help
save the planet? Well, how about resting on the bank and keeping an eye on
your favorite stream.......for a long, long time?

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Wolfgang
yeah, it ain't football.......so, sue me.

Here in Maine they used to have a problem with this method of burial.
Our substrate below the basic dirt level was a lot of granite, shale
and what not. The run-off from cemetaries would infect ground water.
Also when pine boxes collapsed it would expose the grave, box remnants
and occasionally the orpse. I tried to find an old article on it, but
I didn't come up with much. I spend a big part of my childhood across
the street from a graveyard.
Lake Sebago feeds a very large portion of Southern Maine for water,
and it has many tributaries. The EPA was getting quite specific about
burial laws as I remember some time a go, and even more so for those
anywhere near a water way.

Either way, I'm going for creamation. Half to be buried where I grew
up, the other half to be spread out in Saco bay (two of my favorite
fishing spots).

I remember some time ago though the plastic coffin containers turning
up, some where in California I believe after a mudslide unearthed a
bunch of caskets. The "Green Option" would probably work pretty good
for a small lot, but i wonder how it would work with something like
1,000 or more bodies in the ground. Thats a lot of rotting flesh.

Although there would probably be a big problem with fisherman digging
worms everywhere!

Lloyd M
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