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Water pumps
3:37
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Recordist's notes
Despite the Google image this village no longer exists. All that remains are small mounds of yellow earth waiting to be eaten up as part of the huge Garzweiler opencast brown coal mine. Lines of water pumps dot the landscape to dry the soil and make it easier for the machines to excavate. This is the sound of 3 of them.
About the place
Jüchen is a town of about 22,562 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. OttoAnna lists 10 field recordings from here.
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Sources & credits
- “Holz, Germany - disappeared - Water pumps” by Peter Cusack – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0