Date and Time
Thursday Jul 11, 2019
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
5:30 - 7 pm
Location
12835 Sulphur Bank Mine Road, Clearlake Oaks
Google Maps brings drivers to the upper locked gate which is the residential entrance. Guests will want to access the event center via Hwy 20, this will lead them to the lower entrance with no hindrances.
Fees/Admission
Free
Contact Information
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Description
Tour the Bradley House Event Center and hear a presentation by EPA representative of Sulphur Bank Mine Superfund site; it’s history, what has been done to date, what is in the future.
CTAs, Guests, County officials and public are invited.
Activity will be held outside on front lawn
Carter Jessup is The Remedial Manager for the EPA Sulphur Bank Mine
EPAs Superfund program is responsible for cleaning up the nation's most contaminated land and responding to environmental emergencies, oil spills and national disasters. To protect public health and the environment, the Superfund program focuses on making a viable and lasting difference in communities, ensuring that people can live and work in healthy environments.
The 150-acre Sulphur Bank Mercury Mine site is an abandoned open pit mercury mine located on the shoreline of Clear Lake in Lake County, California. Former mining activities at the site contaminated soils, sediments and surface water with mercury and arsenic. The mine introduced mercury to bottom sediments in Clear Lake.
Mr. Jessup has intricate knowledge of What has been done to clean up the site and what the current site status is.