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GreenNews - USA - State wants trucking firm to clean acid spill at Silver City
SILVER CITY,NM,USA -The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe,NM)/AP -Sept 6, 2006: -- The state Environment Department is requiring a tracking company to clean up groundwater contamination from a spill of sulfuric acid in a crash near Silver City... The acid flowed along N.M. 90 and about a half mile down an arroyo on Phelps Dodge Mining Co. property 10 miles south of town after an Aug. 14 crash between two vehicles -one of them a Chemical Transportation Inc. truck hauling the acid for Phelps Dodge-... About 3,000 gallons of sulfuric acid spilled, lowering the soil's pH, the Environment Department said... Low pH in groundwater is not a primary health concern, but such low pH causes contaminants such as heavy metals to more easily dissolve into groundwater, the agency said... Although Phelps Dodge is not responsible for the spill, the mining company is helping the trucking firm with cleanup, Environment Department Secretary Ron Curry said Wednesday...
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