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+title=Week 48; Walking
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+published=2024-11-13 7:24pm CST
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+description=My car broke down and I walked some.
+art=../../images/nov23-geohash-moss.gif
+art_alt=moss growing on a log. The image has only 32 colours. The green of the moss really pops out at you.
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+It's been 18 days since the last weeknote.
+
+This time-period has been pretty alright, minus the car trouble. Thus is
+car ownership, I guess.
+
+I got a nearby geohash (<a href="https://geohashing.site">geohashing.site</a>)
+on the 23rd. It was in the midst of a forest preserve hiding in brush and grasses
+under a grand, old tree. I bet it looks stunning in the summer and fall. Perhaps
+there'll be a trek back there in four or five months.
+
+It was a very nice walk. After I got the point, I walked down an old-and-overgrown
+path and came upon an old, now-decommissioned <abbr title="United States Geological Survey">USGS</abbr>
+water level measuring thing. I couldn't find it on their map of water-level-measuring-things
+<i>(that's the official name)</i>, and it looked like decommissioned sites were mapped, so
+I emailed them.
+
+They provided me with the number identifying the USGS No. 05527910 as well as the time
+it was active. Then I went down
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+In 1957 North Mill Creek was dammed by the then property owner creating a large lake
+which was named after him: Ramussen Lake. Mister Ramussen passed in 1986 which let
+the Lake County Forest Preserve to purchase it in 2001.
+
+USGS No. 05527910 was active from 2007 until 2019.
+
+It monitors North Mill Creek, which seems
+to be runoff from the Elmwood Farm Lake <i>(called the Ramussen Pond on one GIS map i looked at,
+	potentially in honour of the farm owner who passed in 1986 at the age of 78).</i> This
+lake-pond with a contested name is apparently artificial; it was formed when
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