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Happy
As A Clam
“Septic Soldiers,”a community volunteer group with Washington
SeaGrant, produced 23,000 charcoal packets to help track failing
onsite sewage systems in Mason County. Their efforts helped save
taxpayers about $11,000 and led to water-quality improvements that
enabled reopening of 530 acres of shellfish beds for commercial 
harvesting.
Industry,
labor, government and environmentalists agree on one issue: that acid
mine drainage is the number-one environmental problem facing the
mining industry. Acid mine drainage and heavy metals pollution can
poison groundwater and drinking water and destroy aquatic life and
habitat. University of Nevada, Reno scientists have developed a
sulfate-reducing bioreactor that has been demonstrated to effectively
treat roughly 6,000 gallons of water per day at the Leviathan Mine at
a cost of about $2 dollars per day.
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