Aurora wants to tap old gold mine for fresh water
AURORA – Water officials in Aurora on Thursday announced a plan to tap a defunct mountain gold mine for more water to sustain its development boom.
The Denver Post reports that proponents said the approach could help fix the West’s long-ignored environmental problem of old mines draining acid metals-laced muck into streams.
Aurora Water is pursuing a $125 million purchase of underground water at the London Mine complex south of Breckenridge. Discharges from that mine for years have contaminated Denver’s and Aurora’s South Park watershed with cancer-causing cadmium and fish-killing zinc.
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AURORA – Water officials in Aurora on Thursday announced a plan to tap a defunct mountain gold mine for more water to sustain its development boom.
The Denver Post reports that proponents said the approach could help fix the West’s long-ignored environmental problem of old mines draining acid metals-laced muck into streams.
Aurora Water is pursuing a $125 million purchase of underground water at the London Mine complex south of Breckenridge. Discharges from that mine for years have contaminated Denver’s and Aurora’s South Park watershed with cancer-causing cadmium and fish-killing zinc.
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