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Article: Butte, Mont.-Area Lake Water Acidity Is Caused by Mining, Kills Wildlife.
- Article from:
- The Montana Standard (Butte, Montana)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2002
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Byline: Roberta Stauffer
Nov. 4--A waterfall courses through the scene, filling the air with the soothing sound of flow. Only this cascade is a surreal turquoise blue, the product of copper mixed with air and water.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" says Don Benton, who coined the garden wall comparison.
Benton is the so-called skipper of Lake Berkeley. Most days, he's the purchasing agent for Montana Resources, but twice monthly during bird migration season, he fires up the boat and heads out across the water.
The mission: to look for dead birds floating along the water's edge, birds that unwittingly drank too much acidic water.
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