“Like a lot of mined areas, it was originally mined in the 1800s, and over the decades different owners came in and reprocessed things as the technology became advanced,” she said.
The streams now have excess levels of aluminum, antimony, arsenic, cadmium, copper, cyanide, iron, lead, mercury and zinc, impairing water quality for aquatic life, the government agencies said.
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