Wood's Field - Solvay, NY May 30, 2008 Finds

[BH-LandStar]

Here are my finds from a 1.5 hour hunt in Wood's Field in Solvay, NY...This place is NEVER hunted out....I find stuff every time I go...Even in areas I have hunted repeatedly...

1972 Quarter, 1980P Quarter, 1990P Quarter, 2001P Vermont Quarter - 1967 Dime, 1979 Dime 1986P Dime, 1996P Dime, 2001P Dime - 1999P Nickel - 5 Zinc Pennies

Started off at a site known as Gere Lock (Gere Lock Road...Part of the old Erie Canal...Operated by gears instead of manually) in Camillus, NY... This site dates back to the mid 1800s...I do not know why this area of NY uses it's historic sites for garbage dumps or landfills...This place had more junk just lying on the surface than most dumps I have been too...What a shame...Also there was an airfield near Solvay, NY (Syracuse Municipal)...Charles Linburgh visited there...Now it is a landfill...I just don't get it???



HH,

BH-LandStar

 

[Cherokeefan68]

Congrats on your finds.. It is a true shame that alot of these places are falling into real neglect. No one seems to care until they fall into such disrepair that they can't be recovered. Then you get "In this spot there once was, and if you use your imagination".

 

[BH-LandStar]

That is about the story...look at Google Earth and type in Solvay, NY....then go a bit NE and see the Western edge of Oondaga Lake (most poluted lake in the Nation)...The shoreline there is green now from Lime deposits, and chemical waste from Solvay Proccess Company that went on for 100 years...25 pounds of Mercury a day was being dumped into the lake.....Do a Google search for The Solvay Proccess....The water will eat the paint right off your boat if left in it too long, or if you do not wash it off after you take it out (no lie). They are still cleaning up the lake...I say they will NEVER get it clean again....The joke is they hold an aual fishing derby on the lake...The biggest 3 eyed fish wins...In the early 1800s, there were 3 Hotels, 2 Casinos, and 2 amusement parks along the southern and Western shores of the lake...industry put an end to all of this...Now if you go back on the shoreline, all you see is white powdery waste from the Solvay Proccess....Any hint of a thriving amusement community is buried under 40 feet of this stuff....A true shame...



HH,

BH-LandStar

 

[dobbie]

interesting story landstar....why in the world would anyone want to do that to a beautiful lake? do they really have fishing derbies for 3 eyed fish?

 

[Cherokeefan68]

I grew up near Lake Erie in PA.. I was real little when that mess with the paper companies happened. However what really kills me is that more and more of the Erie canal is disappearing and no one seems to care.

 

[BH-LandStar]

They do hold a fishing derby each year...for some reason, there are still bass, walleye, and perch in parts of the lake...there are pockets where the water is still relatively clean...The Erie Canal IS slowly disappearing...Roads are being built over it, parts are being filled in, the structures are falling apart, and no one wants to repair them without government funding...That is the big disappointment here in Syracuse, NY...NOTHING gets done without government funding.....What happened to paying for your own stuff????



BH-LandStar

 

[PACK RAT]

Here in Colorado it is water. Have a lake 5 miles from my house that may be there one month and then they open the gates and gone the next. Always fighting with neighboring state over water. Only good thing is that it does give the medal detector hunters a huge area to hunt. When full, swimmers, jet skiers, and beach go'ers are think. When dry 4-wheelers and medal detectors are out. Bad thing is it is super thick with tabs, cans, foil and trash from campers. Really hard to get through. Had to give up when swinging until I can get a 4 inch coil to try to work through the trash.