More work is ahead to clean up soil contamination from the abandoned Providence Mine near Nevada City. The city is one of only five in California to receive Federal EPA funding for the Brownfields program. And it’s also the maximum 200-thousand dollars. Parks and Recreation Supervisor Dawn Zydonis says it’s their third such grant. It’ll allow another minor extension of the Tribute Trail, along Deer Creek…

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Zydonis says it’ll be at least a year, and likely longer, before cleanup can resume…

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Some of the metal contamination includes such potential carcinogens as mercury, arsenic, and, cadmium. Providence Mine was a productive gold mine for 68 years. The EPA says there are an estimated 450-thousand abandoned and contaminated waste sites in the United States