Jaguar Paw wrote:In the 1980s comic strip "Judge Dredd"(is that still going?) such places used to be called "Chem Pits"; they were either the fly-tipped detritus from industrial activity OR; they were the products of chemical fires caused by the nuking of large areas of Mega-City One during theHolocaust War of 2106; the added property of which was, they were almost always corrosive and invariably dissolved human flesh on contact. Best chem pit story; "Night Of The Rad-beast" ("Fresh flesh! Fresh flesh! Want fresh flesh! Give bits for Bizmo!")
Well I can assure you, the sludge is not corrosive... But it does stink like hell.