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published=2024-11-13 7:24pm CST

description=My car broke down and I walked some.
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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