January 25, 2021
Idaho environmental officials have asked lawmakers to approve just more than $3 million to deal with toxic discharge and a collapsing tunnel at an abandoned silver and lead mine in central Idaho.
The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality made the request to the Legislature’s powerful budget-setting committee. Lawmakers will make budget decisions during the legislative session underway in Boise.
About $1 million of the agency’s request is to study a roughly $3 million plan to stabilize the mine that had a collapse following a 6.5 magnitude earthquake in March.
Officials say water contaminated with arsenic, lead and other pollutants could build up in the mine and possibly burst through. There’s also concern about spring water in the area being contaminated.
Lawmakers asked to approve $3 million for old mine cleanup
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For the city of Sun Valley and Sun Valley Resort, 2020 brought some glimpses of the future.
While the city reviewed plans for new development, the resort brought some of its plans to fruition, most notably a new high-speed quad chairlift on Bald Mountain that will serve an area of new skiing and snowboarding terrain called Sunrise. The unveiling of the project came against the backdrop of a notable accolade for Sun Valley, the designation by SKI magazine as the No. 1 ski resort in the West.
Hereâs a look at some of Sun Valleyâs 2020 highlights:
Resort ranked No. 1 in survey
Kool-Aid
Edwin E. Perkins, who walked 3 miles to school as a child, began mixing up potential products in his mother s Hendley kitchen at age 12 or 13. Perkins sold a number of products, including a tobacco habit remedy, and moved with his wife to Hastings in 1920. In 1927, Perkins mixed up the first packet of what would become Kool-Aid. Courtesy photo
Railroad engineer invented the ski lift in Nebraska
Union Pacific Railroad mechanical engineering employees determine a comfortable speed at which the world s first ski chairlift should operate during a test at the railroad s Omaha railcar and locomotive repair shop complex in the summer of 1936.Â