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Former Oregon Mercury Mine Added To Superfund List

March 2, 2010
By Dennis Newman

After decades of leaching mercury into the streams and rivers of Lane County, the EPA has put the former Black Butte Mine on the Superfund clean up list. The mine is located about ten miles south of Cottage Grove. EPA has documents thousands of cubic yards of tailings and soil that’s been contaminated by...
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