Public Health Assessment for Callahan Mining Corporation Brooksville (Cape Rosier), Hancock County, Maine. EPA Facility ID: MED980524128. April 17, 2003.

摘要

Callahan Mining Corporation site is on the Cape Rosier peninsula, near Harborside Village in the town of Brooksville, Maine. The site is a former zinc/copper open-pit mine operated adjacent to and beneath Goose Pond (also known as Goose Pond Estuary), on the Cape Rosier peninsula. Goose Pond was dammed and drained during operations to allow the mining to take place. The site was contaminated by metals from the open-pit mining operation and residual chemicals from mining separations processes. Since the mine ceased operations in 1972, dams preventing water from entering Goose Pond have been removed, and the pit is currently under water. Elevated levels of heavy metals, including cadmium, copper, lead, and zinc, have been measured in surface water, sediments, biota, soil, and waste piles on site.