With a little time on my hands and my rust monkey screaming I headed East to do a little dumping. I had been communicating with Paul Bojarsky and
Dwight Barbacci about getting out and doing a little digging but it wasn't looking like either trip was going to work out. So I googled drained lakes in Pennsylvania and found two just Northeast of Pittsburgh, So on Wednesday April 20th I headed East To Glade Run Lake. This Lake created in 1954 had been drained in 2011 to repair the dam. I arrived around 2:30 in the afternoon cutting through the construction zone, parking out of the way near a park building.
- Lake View
- Big K
Right away I dug this Big K soda it looked halfway decent but the aluminum top was dissolved and the bottom fell off.
- Iron City Flat, really flat
This is what I was hoping to find, some Iron City flat tops, maybe I'll dig a clean one?
- Creek
I headed to the creek hoping to get some cans exposed from the erosion.
- Iron City tab
It wasn't looking good the Galvanic corrosion was pretty intense here even solid aluminum cans are brutally effected, I've never seen this before.
- Can
- Old man at the lake
- Bud
- Simon Pure Flat
- Snoopy
- One for Leon
- Another Iron City Tab
- Soda
Well I gave it about two hours, I dug a lot of cans but the condition was terrible, not one clean can. It just goes to show not all lakes will preserve cans. Possibly in a different area of the lake I may have found some better condition but the construction crew was leaving and I didn't want to get trapped behind some heavy equipment blocking my exit, so I left. Not what I hoped for, was hoping to spend a couple days digging here...I headed East.
Rusty
- Iron City
