... near the airport, and near the Water Treatment Plant:
That's a seed pod, below...
Parting views of the Water Treatment Plant...
I thought I remembered it well, but after about a dozen years, it is getting kind of hazy. I was there for many years, and I held many different positions.
The Treatment Plant now looks rather forbidding, like a maximum security prison.
Cotton!
So much to see!
Isn't crap like this, an abandoned building like this, so close to the airport, a security risk?
It probably is a security risk but if some Good Old Boy owns it, it'll stay there forever and nothing will be done. Let's move on to Lubbock's Water Treatment Plant. I used to work there!
They've got a lot of security these days. When I was there, anybody could walk in at any time, but I guess that had to change.
Just some more pics of the tumble-down, rundown, ramshackle buildings you find in that area:
This junk probably belongs to a close friend of somebody on the city council, and that's why it remains unmolested. Maybe this crap belongs to the mayor. Who knows?
If you want to prosper in Lubbock, you'd better be connected. And, if you are connected, zoning laws don't affect you. You can get away with a lot.
I've heard people say that Lubbock has the meanest TSA thugs in the country. I hope I never have to find out. I hate air travel, at least COMMERCIAL air travel. There is an area near the airport that used to be considered "industrial". But now it doesn't look too good.
I want to make it clear that there was no attempt to restrict access to any of the buildings/ruins we found out there, nor were there any No Trespassing notices. This is all wide open. There were containers of toxic chemicals sitting around. Not good.
That's a seed pod, below...
Parting views of the Water Treatment Plant...
I thought I remembered it well, but after about a dozen years, it is getting kind of hazy. I was there for many years, and I held many different positions. 
