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6. When I lived in WV, several times after hard rain

Sat Apr 1, 2023, 12:47 AM

Apr 2023

there were reports of orange foam on the Monongahela River and streams turning orange. Wonder if this is the same type of runoff?

https://energy.wvu.edu/news/2019/03/25/wvu-water-experts-warn-when-it-rains-polluted-mine-drainage-can-pour

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Officials asking people to stay away from mysterious orange liquid near Prescott [View all] Ptah Mar 2023 OP

I'll bet Google Maps will send people to a nifty back road. Ptah Apr 2023 #4

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Kali Apr 2023 #5

I swear I thought this was somehow going to be a Trump story. Frasier Balzov Apr 2023 #2

Someone should make sure traitortrump is not in Arizona. Hermit-The-Prog Apr 2023 #3

When I lived in WV, several times after hard rain happybird Apr 2023 #6

Sounds very similar. Ptah Apr 2023 #7

yep, it's the same stuff, n/t mike_c Apr 2023 #9

looks like "yellow boy," iron hydroxide from acid mine drainage mike_c Apr 2023 #8

Can we inform the GQP there that this is a gift from the gibbon? OldBaldy1701E Apr 2023 #10

Residue concretebluetwo Apr 2023 #11