Toxic Mine Site in Lode Needs Fix
From the Stockton Record:
“Cottonwoods now grow in the once-barren gulch leading from the Penn Mine, and fish no longer die by the thousands when rain runoff washes from the mine into nearby Camanche Reservoir. But there’s still plenty of evidence of the mine’s toxic past, including crusty mineral formations along creeks …
“That landfill is the heart of a $16.5 million cleanup completed in the late 1990s by state water pollution regulators and the East Bay Municipal Utility District.”
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