Question about a dig I helped with last summer

I was on a volunteer dig in rural Illinois last July, and we spent 5 hours trying to figure out why one test pit kept flooding. Turned out a broken irrigation pipe from the 1980s was buried just below the surface. Has anyone else run into modern junk messing up a site that badly?

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sandragrant6d ago

Oh wow, I saw a documentary where they found an old car buried at a dig site once...

johnson.eva6d ago

100 bucks says it still has better gas mileage than my SUV.

skyler_kelly696d ago

lol your SUV probably gets like 18 mpg if you're lucky, this thing probably sips gas like it's going out of style. i saw one of those old geo metros once and the owner was bragging about hitting 50 mpg on the highway, meanwhile my truck gets like 12. honestly with gas prices these days that buried car might actually be the better financial move than whatever modern eco box you're driving. just sayin, that thing could probably outlast your SUV too if it wasn't, you know, underground for 40 years.