Waste and chemicals from the gold mines, which cascade into the creek, end up contributing to sedimentation in the lake as well as increased mercury and cyanide levels.
Ko Paw Lay, who works with Inn Chit Thu, a community group engaged in ecotourism ventures around the lake, told Frontier that although local communities have mined gold in the area for generations, production ramped up with the introduction of heavy machinery in 2009. Since then, 200 acres of the lake’s surface has silted up, he claimed.
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