diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ python-dateutil==2.8.2
 python-dotenv==0.19.2
 pywin32-ctypes==0.2.0
 PyYAML==6.0
-./wheels/Shapely-1.8.0-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl
+Shapely==1.8.1
 shiboken2==5.15.2.1
 six==1.16.0
 sniffio==1.2.0
diff --git a/wheels/README.md b/wheels/README.md
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@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-# Wheels
-
-This directory contains Windows wheels for packages that do not yet have wheels
-on PyPI. Wheels are downloaded from https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/.
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