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Originally Posted by gfejunkie
More like a government agency taking a bad situation and making it worse.
Typical.
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Really...how about you Google Love Canal. I realize many of you consider that COGay's ass butt it is not in regards to EPA clean-up. Or check out
Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area, Montana
One of the largest Superfund sites in the country, Silver Bow Creek/Butte area encompasses more than 500 underground mines and four open pit mines, including the Berkeley Pit with its ancillary tailings ponds, waste dumps and acid leach pads. The Berkeley Pit — which has since been flooded with acidic, metal-contaminated water — might just be the pit from hell. The water contains so much dissolved metal that materials can be mined directly from the water. In 1995, a flock of migrating snow geese
died in the Berkeley Pit. Necropsies found that the acid water had eaten away at esophageal tissue and damaged internal organs.
In fact, the area, designated as a Superfund site in 1983, has become such a symbol for toxicity that it has been transformed into a
tourist attraction.
A water treatment plant has been built along the pit, capable of
treating 5,000 gallons of water a minute. Even so, it is a race against time, as the water level is expected to reach the natural water table by 2020, which means the mine water will spill into the local groundwater.
Read more:
http://www.mnn.com/health/healthy-sp...#ixzz3iEfmOQS7
Murray Smelter, Utah
The Murray Smelter site in Salt Lake County, Utah, is a real Superfund success story. Formerly the site of a
huge lead smelter operated by ASARCO from 1872 until 1949, the land has been reclaimed as commercial territory and is currently home to a Costco (inset photo).
The site had a long road to recovery. Murray Smelter was responsible for widespread lead and arsenic contamination of the region's soil, groundwater and surface water. EPA started investigating in 1995, and gave the site its
highest overall hazard ranking score. Today, the EPA has deemed the cleanup to be complete, and the site is consistent with all land revitalization goals.
Read more:
http://www.mnn.com/health/healthy-sp...#ixzz3iEgQeAcx