hey Miso .........   
      
   have you taken notice of the two new   
    " wells " they installed  out on one of our favorite places ?  they   
   put them in last year !   
      
   while they were running the drilling rigs  I  stopped and asked them   
   about what they were doing. (  It looked odd to me that " they'd have   
   such " serious " type of drilling equipment and so many expensive rigs   
   operating , all at the same time )   several attempts only brought "   
   you'll  have to talk to the boss "  or " I just run the rig .. and   
   follow orders "  type answers.   finally , one stop to try again ,  an   
   engineer   type  said they were drilling wells to monitor the possible   
   spread of contaminated ground water  from the NTS. I thought that was   
   a decent plausible answer to say the least.   this was during the (   
   odd  )  final clean up phase when they were bulldozing ( huh ?? ) the   
   desert and making it look all pretty again. (  the standard , hiding   
   the debris,  tactic used all over that  place )    " that's great "  I   
   said ......... "  but ........ why'ja drill  and CASE  those huge 38"   
   diameter  holes ( instead of the usual standard   
   6" or 8"  test well casing )  and line the casing with a step ladder   
   and have those steel cap hatches that lock only  from the inside ???   
   "   (  I'm sure as soon as someone reads this post , the appearance of   
   this'll be corrected  ha hahahah    )   the engineer got a funnie look   
   on his face and said he had to take care of some business and left. (   
   actually drove off in his truck )   
      
   it's interesting that those " wells "  just happen to coincide with   
   one of the first  ( off the base )  tunnels that I ever found out   
   there.  the one that " keeps on keeping on  " for a long way. ( don't   
   want to mention where it goes or exactly where it is , but I'd guess   
   you know exactly where I'm talk'in about ) .   
      
   obviously there's really nothing unusual about tunnels or access   
   hatches around those parts , for sure , but I thought it was unusual   
   that " they'd " put them in such obvious and easily located / seen   
   places.  places where a zillion people are going to notice  them.   
   these must be pretty important / necessary for them to have  done   
   that.  dunno if  it's some kinda OSHA requirement or because of some   
   potentially  serious   emergency  escape needs ....... interesting   
   never the less.  who knows .. maybe the NEW way to test ground water   
   plumes   is to climb several hundred feet down a steel ladder and test   
   the water in  person , by hand !!!  ah ahaha ha ha   Pumps !! .....   
   wee donn need no stink'in pumps !!   
      
   in fact,  maybe the " real " purpose of the tunnel actually IS for   
   keeping an eye on the  spread of contamination and radiation from the   
   base .......  and maybe  ( even ) those hatches are for inspectors to   
   access the contamination monitoring  tunnel eliminating the need to go   
   onto the secret base to get into them ( tho locking from the inside   
   makes that look less of a possibility ) ........ they just might have   
   drilled that huge tunnel for the sole purpose of  contamination   
   monitoring !!   related to the Yucca Mountain repository   
   stuff ??   ( ha ha ah haha h )  anything's possible  ..............   
      
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