Coeur d'Alene Lake
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| Though the water is clean, this lake is heavily contaminated. It is popular among the recreational boaters who are no doubt mostly unaware of what lies under them. At the bottom of the 50-square-mile lake is 75 million metric tons of contaminated sediment (contaminated with lead, zinc and cadmium, and other metals), deposited in the lake from the Coeur d'Alene Mining District upstream, part of which is now a 21-square-mile toxic area known as the Bunker Hill Superfund Site. |
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Four miles E of Coeur d'Alene
(POINT(-116.801755 47.5267))
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http://www.epa.gov/superfund/accomp/factsheets03/bunker_ou3.htm
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Mining Waste
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Waste, Water
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