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Louisville Finally Takes Stock of Abandoned Waste Dump Inside a Preserved Forest

Inside Climate News · By James Bruggers · last updated
After a University of Louisville graduate student linked a site dubbed “Gully of the Drums” to the notorious “Valley of the Drums,” officials OK a new study of buried hazardous waste.

By James Bruggers

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Environmental consultants this summer will be digging trenches and taking soil samples in this city’s Jefferson Memorial Forest, looking to document new evidence of toxic waste dumped there decades ago.

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