There is no shortage of variables. One attendee at Wednesday’s meeting wondered whether the discharge of treated water from the Berkeley Pit upstream into Silver Bow Creek could play a role.

Gardner was manager of operations for Atlantic Richfield at its Butte mine when the pumps in the Berkeley Pit were turned off in 1982. The mine was in financial ruins and ARCO closed it the next year.

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