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Stomping around the brush in a place that once upon a time used to be a alternate site for communication satellites for the apollo/mercury/gemini space missions. The satellites have long since been removed. Back in the 1990s when I used to ride dirt bikes back here the concrete pads for the satellites and a small CMU shack still stood. Everything has since been lost to time and overgrown. The area borders a small creek where we used to come drink beer and party during high school. There are now houses pretty damn close to the spot now, and in another ten years this will all be flattened and paved.

These are concrete storage tanks for sewage lift stations, in place for not too distant future needs. Once the neighborhood gets this far out, sewer will have to be pumped back up to a higher elevation to make its way to a treatment facility.

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