[CPEO-BIF] Oakland Hills, California pyrite mine

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Oakland's Leona Creek to lose odd orange hue after cleanup Long- 
abandoned mine turns water orange - cleanup finally planned

by Carolyn Jones
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
February 22, 2014

In a city with many oddities, there's nothing quite like Oakland's  
Leona Creek: It's bright, foaming and stinking orange.

Some neighbors describe it as the Love Canal, or the River of Tang.  
Others keep their pets and kids away. Some are so used to it they  
think it's normal.

But normal it's not. The creek is awash with sulfuric acid, sometimes  
at levels comparable to battery acid, leaching from an abandoned  
pyrite mine near the creek headwaters in the Oakland hills. It flows  
through Mills College and past O.co Coliseum, and ultimately empties  
into San Francisco Bay.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Oakland-s-Leona-Creek-to-lose- 
odd-orange-hue-5257285.php


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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