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NNadir

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4. I looked, in an admittedly cursory fashion, in the scientific search engines to see if pesticides might be involved.

Reply to mdbl (Reply #3)

Tue Jun 9, 2026, 10:49 AM

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The lake, which is located in the Apache reservation, the closest city being Phoenix, is artificial, and was constructed for agricultural purposes.

There doesn't seem to be much written about chemical pollutants, but there are concerns about climate effects. The area is known for extreme temperatures which are naturally or unnaturally getting worse.

Better than 70% of the copper mined in the US is mined in Arizona, but the mines seem to be centered in Eastern Arizona with the exception of the Bagdad mine, close to 300 miles away.

I doubt that mine tailing runoff is involved.

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