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As of August 2020, Dead Horse Bay in NYC, the location of one of the largest publicly accessible land fills in NYC, will be closed indefinitely due to radiation.
https://www.nps.gov/gate/learn/news/dead-horse-bay-closed.htm
Many people in NYC used to go to Dead Horse Bay to find treasure washed out of the landfill. It is an excellent source of bottles and small household trinkets dating anywhere from the 1890's to 1953. The pirate Captain Charles Gibbs also buried looted Spanish silver there in 1830, much of it never recovered.
I have been measuring the radiation levels at this landfill for the past several years and found places more than 50 times normal background radiation from sources including Uranium, Uranium Oxide, Radium, and many other unidentified sources. Unfortunately the NYS Parks Department never issued any warnings about this to anyone and people have likely been exposed to radiation more than they would otherwise have been as a result.
Unfortunately this may spell the end to amateur treasure hunting in the area as the radiation permeates the entirety of the site to varying degrees of intensity.
https://www.nps.gov/gate/learn/news/dead-horse-bay-closed.htm
Many people in NYC used to go to Dead Horse Bay to find treasure washed out of the landfill. It is an excellent source of bottles and small household trinkets dating anywhere from the 1890's to 1953. The pirate Captain Charles Gibbs also buried looted Spanish silver there in 1830, much of it never recovered.
I have been measuring the radiation levels at this landfill for the past several years and found places more than 50 times normal background radiation from sources including Uranium, Uranium Oxide, Radium, and many other unidentified sources. Unfortunately the NYS Parks Department never issued any warnings about this to anyone and people have likely been exposed to radiation more than they would otherwise have been as a result.
Unfortunately this may spell the end to amateur treasure hunting in the area as the radiation permeates the entirety of the site to varying degrees of intensity.
