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Ever since, waters from the surrounding bedrock and a maze of old mine tunnels and shafts have been rushing in and reacting with the ores to form a toxic soup that rises steadily, year after year, like water in a vast bathtub. It's the Berkeley Pit, and it's a man-made wonder of horrific proportions--an oval lake of acidic mining residues so deep that it could swallow an 80-story skyscraper...
...those rising waters--26 billion gal.--lap menacingly just blocks from the center of town and 360 ft. below the rim of the pit, threatening one day to spill into an underground aquifer and send a tide of contaminants seeping into neighborhoods and creeks across the Summit Valley. Some people are concerned about a shroud of morning mist and fog--a product of the lake--that envelops parts of the town. "All that moisture has to be carrying bad things in it," says worried restaurateur Buck Loomis...
ARCO and Montana Resources, the pit's custodians, like the idea of mining the fetid lake but say it is not yet economically feasible. A local environmental firm, MSE Technology Applications, is testing everything from microbes and chemicals to membrane strainers to remove the ores but says a workable process could be years off. That's too long to wait, warns Fritz Daily, a former Montana legislator who is concerned about an earthquake fault less than a mile from the pit. "If the water ever discharges, it could destroy the entire valley," he says. A growing number of others, Montana...
...Being informed of it 10 days before the move-pit was frustrating," said the second co-director, a junior...
...spring, TheaterWatch was solicited for the following suggestions. Hello, I am TheaterWatch. This season, look forward to pressing the # key. Hee-hee. That's right. The spring shall bring #, a play co-written by J. Eric Marler (GSAS) whom we once saw wowing audiences from his desk at the pit of the valley created by stacked rafters in Leverett Old Library. Wry, clever, fresh humor and a ruthlessly deadpan delivery marked Posthumous Improvisations, his one-man show of trials and tribs. Will # live up to this? Stay tuned. I am TheaterWatch. Thank you. I am TheaterWatch...