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One of California's Lost Ghost Towns is Lost for Good Reason - Sunset - Sunset Magazine


Hannah McKelson
Hannah McKelson
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April 1, 2021
| Updated April 6, 2021
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New Idria is, at its core, an unsettling cesspool of toxicity, a trait that hasn’t wavered since it was claimed in 1854 and initiated production of what would amount to 38 million pounds of mercury. Shut down in 1972 when the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company closed, it would take nearly four decades for the site’s contamination to elicit a “superfund” designation by the Environmental Protection Agency. 
The area contains three forms of mercury, including the most hazardous: monomethyl mercury, a neurotoxin. Water discharges the heavy metal through the local San Carlos and Panoche creeks, couriering toxicities up to 20 miles downstream. Asbestos levels remain high, and the local water runs rust-red. Any per ....

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