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Reuters: South Africa plans to set up a chain of pumping stations and treatment plants to prevent toxic liquids building up in defunct gold mines beneath Johannesburg from reaching dangerous levels.
Immediate action is needed because acidic mine water is expected to reach environmentally critical levels under Johannesburg by June 2012, government officials and scientists told reporters Tuesday.
Water has already started leaking from abandoned mines west of Johannesburg in the so-called Western Basin.......
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South Africa plans urgent clean-up of toxic mine liquid
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 22nd, 2011
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