When the Levee Breaks
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Earlier this month a tailings dam designed by Knight Piesold at the Mount Polley copper mine breached, dumping up to 10 million cubic meters of heavily contaminated water into surrounding streams, rivers and lakes in British Columbia. The plan for the Pebble mine in southwest Alaska calls for three earthen dams, all similar in design to the one that just broke.
By Bill Carter, ContributorAuthor, 'Boom, Bust, Boom: A Story About Copper, the Metal Tha..., 2014-08-29