| THE PINK CONCRETE |
| AND CAST IRON SEWER PIPES |
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Electrical lines that
were not on poles were laid on the surface of the coral, it was to costly to try
and trench the coral with jack hammers. These cable were in conduit
protected by pink concrete, to designate that they had live wires inside the
concrete.
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| These concrete lines as well as the
above ground sewer pipes were the "pathways" used by the kids of Lago Colony.
Every kid could "walk the pipes" and most knew where the pink concrete led to
and used it as a pathway. Both the cast iron sewer pipes and pink concrete
were much cooler than the asphalt roads. Well, maybe not cool, but cooler
than the roads, they were still hot but could be walked barefooted, the roads
could not be walked on in bare feet, no matter how much callus you had on the
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| The photo below taken by Steve Fremgen in
2005 shows the "pink concrete" above the Little Lagoon, leading to the Maga Cora
wells. |
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| A close-up of the "pink concrete". |
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| In this photo, on the right hand
side, the sewer pipe can be seen going from the T-Dock to the Big Dock.
These sewer pipes ran all over the Colony. Photo by Stan Norcom. |
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THIS PHOTO WAS SUPPLIED BY BILL MOYER |
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