Igloo, South Dakota

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It wouldn't surprise me if kids were taken to Igloo and imprisoned there.



https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/doomsday-shelters-for-lease-at-former-army-depot-near-edgemont/article_9a5c0aa3-7c9e-5702-882f-f4e6120649e7.html

The bunkers are remnants of the former Black Hills Ordnance Depot, which was operated as a munitions storage and maintenance facility by the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1967. Its operation overlapped with a uranium-mining boom in the Edgemont area from the 1950s to the '70s, when most of the uranium was used in Cold War nuclear weapons.
The bunkers sprawl across an 18-square-mile plain about 10 miles southwest of Edgemont and are covered with earth, making them look a bit like igloos and inspiring the name “Igloo” for the short-lived community that was built to house the depot’s employees and their families.

The bunker complex is now privately owned, and much of it is controlled by a South Dakota-based corporation, S&S Land and Cattle Co., which has a partner corporation called Fort Igloo Bunkers LLC. Officers of those corporations referred the Journal’s interview requests to Vicino, who said his company has obtained a lease agreement allowing it to sublet the bunkers.

I used to live in nearby Edgemont and still know people there. I'll keep an ear open.

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1. Aren't these bunkers contaminated by the high explosives that were kept there?

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2. The GOP and Contractors wouldn't give two shits about contamination.

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4. True, but the workers might.

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3. Apparently at least part of the site is contaminated

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/25/plan-for-old-black-hills-depot-worries-some-reside/

IGLOO, S.D. (AP) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is installing barbed-wire fence to close off part of a defunct military depot near Edgemont, but some area residents say the move will prove ineffective at stopping potential danger from lingering explosives and toxic contamination at the remote site.

Regardless, some of the bunkers will be part of a survivalist camp called Doomsday.

https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2017/05/30/doomsday-south-dakota-former-military-bunkers-being-used-prepare-apocalypse/354127001/

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5. In 1984 Chem Nuclear tried to build a nuclear waste dump in the Black Hills at Igloo South Dakota

near Edgemont. The dump proposal led to a statewide ballot issue that resulted in South Dakota’s law that requires any nuclear dump or similar facility to be put to a statewide public vote. While this law is one of the more stringent in the nation, it invites deep pocketed nuclear companies to try to influence that process. A state wide nuclear referendum vote would cause millions in out of state money to flood in, in an attempt to squash any debate. Just keeping the non nuclear status quo in South Dakota would end up costing South Dakotans millions of dollars and a huge grassroots effort to fight back against an unwanted project.

http://fukuleaks.org/nonukesSD/our-nuclear-history/