Thousands of abandoned gold mines dot the Sierra Nevada Foothills landscape, spreading heavy metal toxins such as arsenic, lead and mercury in the environment unwittingly impacting human health and ecological receptors.
The miners, industrialists and corporations who caused this devastation have long since fled the scene, leaving no-one to foot the huge cleanup bills we now encounter. The US EPA Brownfields Grant program has recently provided over a Million Dollars to investigate and clean up abandoned mines in Nevada City and Grass Valley. This talk will provide an overview of local mining history and the environmental problems it has caused and will then focus on the cleanup of two mine sites on Nevada City property using Brownfields Grant funding.
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