Hey everyone,

I did some digging in the archives and I am wondering about the status of these three titan sites, Chico, Live Oak, and Lincoln. From what i’ve heard live oak has been welded off for a couple of years, Lincoln is flooded to the top, and Chico also is partially flooded with a crazy owner? Does anyone have any recent updates?

Met the silo’s caretaker at Chico. He said that he’s just watching the land and that it’s owned by someone from Facebook planning to use it for something. I asked about access and he said that it’d be a liability even if I did waive my rights.

Pennington is sealed shut as of a few months ago. Probably wasn’t worth cutting through a bunch a farmland to try to see what was up with that one haha.

Not sure about the other two but by judgement we decided Lincoln wouldn’t be worth it since it was in a more active area.

That’s unfortunate, I had a lot of hopes for the Live Oaks site

ahh this is sad to hear, I was hoping to check them out next time I passed through, I did see a Reddit thread that is about 2 years old about the one near Chico so I assume there is/or was a POI for it

https://goldcountr...nation-has-spread/

The moral of this story is that the Lincoln site, and by logical extension, the others as-well are a very serious (albeit mostly unaddressed) issue for the property owners, adjacent property owners, and any intelligent person with a business or residence in the area. None of us would want to deal with the anxiety of wondering if the drinking water we & are family use is safe, the water used to make the dough at our pizza or doughnut shop is safe, if our home or business has any re-sale value due to the groundwater contamination issue, etc.

So it's pretty understandable if the site owners, neighbors, etc. are already having a bad day when they see you poking-around on or near the site and thus not likely to appreciate your adventuresome spirit, etc. Army Corps of Engineers (contractors) come-around as they get project funding available. Sometimes they do half the job, then funding runs-out or they get pulled to a higher priority project, and maybe come back 2 years later to do a little more work... It gets political, always contentious and usually a decades-long fiasco (look at the former Hunter's Point Naval Ship Yard -- they've got something somewhat scarier -- ionizing radiation).



The reality is that just about every 20th century US military site does or did have some level of soil contamination. Sounds crazy by today's standards, but back in the day, gasoline was a cleaning solvent to cut through grease & grime. Got some nuts & bolts or other tank parts? Soak 'em in a bucket or barrel full of gas, then just dump the gas out onto the ground somewhere convenient! Also poured onto a rag & used to hand-wash cars, jeeps and just about every other grimy metal item that didn't have high-gloss paint...


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That’s the risk with many of these sites, i’ve heard that the Lincoln site is flooded all the way to the top, so it must take years to decontaminate it. I feel bad for the people nearby