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No truth to the rumor…

…that the incoming governor sent the Cesspool Man over to Blackwell House to clean out the swamp. Featured An Emergency, Apparently A demolition rushed, an explanation missing, and a community left outside the room. Eleanor Rivers Dec 19, 2025 Read...

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…that the incoming governor sent the Cesspool Man over to Blackwell House to clean out the swamp.

The Emergency Was Always Underground
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The Emergency Was Always Underground

How decades of documented risk were ignored while a convenient emergency took center stage.

The steam plant and the steam tunnel were never two problems. They were one system. They were only separated later, when separating them made development easier and responsibility harder to pin down.

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