Iron Mountain Mine - Jobs and Clean-up from Recovery Act Funds

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Recovery Act (ARRA) funding has supported acceleration of the dredging, treatment and disposal of heavy-metal contaminated sediment located in the Spring Creek Arm of the Keswick Reservoir — taking approximately 18 months to complete rather than three years. The EPA will construct pipelines and pump stations to move contaminated sediment from the Spring Creek Arm of Keswick Reservoir to a disposal cell. Hydraulic dredging is scheduled to begin in October 2009 after the disposal cell is constructed, and the pipelines, pumps and treatment facilities are installed.

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[DemeterData]

An SFGate article states that the mine will be spewing this stuff out for 3,000 years unless we find a way to neutralize it.

[jesshooker]

Hope they clean it up one day