[CPEO-BIF] "Abandoned Mines Could Create Toxic River Flowing Into San Francisco Bay"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Abandoned Mines Could Create Toxic River Flowing Into San Francisco Bay

By Len Ramirez
KPIX TV-5 News (San Francisco, CA)
February 18, 2016

HOLLISTER (CBS SF) - In one of the most remote places in the Bay Area, El Niño is potentially a game changer this year, raising threats that a flood of toxic water could flow into San Francisco Bay after sloshing through 40 miles of polluted, abandoned mines.

Stanford Professor Gordon Brown has studied the problem for decades.

“Part of it will get to the Bay.  The question is how much, and that’s what we really don’t know,” said Brown.

At the long abandoned New Idria mine in the hills south of Hollister, there is a new urgency to clean up and contain toxic dirt and water laced with chemicals like mono methyl mercury.

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For the entire story, see
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/02/18/abandoned-mines-could-create-toxic-river-flowing-into-san-francisco-bay/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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