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Posted: 14 Mar 2017

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The Namtu Flue

The Namtu Flue
A long flue leads to the chimney from the old lead/zinc smelter at Namtu, Myanmar. The lack of vegetation on the hillside around the chimney is a good indication of the heavy metal fallout.

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 Cold War Warrior
Cold War Warrior
I won't be building a house there!
7 years ago.
 GrahamH
GrahamH club
Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia has made a tourist attraction of its bare hills due to the same reason.
7 years ago.
 slgwv
slgwv club
Kellogg, Idaho looked like this 30 years ago, due to smelter fumes, but the vegetation has now recovered to the point that it's become an upscale real estate/summer home area!
7 years ago.
Cold War Warrior has replied to slgwv club
Was that on its own, or did Mother Nature get a lot of environmental assistance?
7 years ago.
slgwv club has replied to Cold War Warrior
I'm sure there was active remediation on the valley floor, around the old smelter site--things like covering the tailings, building dikes to keep any leachates out of the streams, and so on. AFAIK, tho, the hillsides received no treatment but a few decades of Idaho winters! ;)
7 years ago. Edited 7 years ago.

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