On Thursday , a rupture during an acid mine cleanup effortsent a million Imperial gallon of wastewater seeping down the Animas River . Overnight , the pop waterway was abandoned as its color quickly alter from gentle to an acrid , neon orange tree .
Animas River closed to public due to waste from Silverton mine.https://t.co/OnattqvkFFpic.twitter.com/NZAqvEKkEi
— Durango Herald ( @DurangoHerald)August 6 , 2015
It ’s not the first time we ’ve managed to turn a big soundbox of water supply an eery and astonishingly pretty toxic hue . Here are a few other salient illustration in which befoulment and diligence have shown us their esthetic sides .
Potash Mine Near Moab, Utah
These electrical aristocratical brine ponds are only the most seeable part of a complex underground K minelaying operation . They get their crazy color from an artificial dye , impart to the urine to help it engross heating plant and evaporate more chop-chop . study more about themhere .
Image via NASA Earth Observatory
icon viaDoc Searles / Flickr
double viaNelson Minar / Flickr
Hong Kong Coastline
Hong Kong ’s coastal waters are fill with sloven shit , fertiliser and sewerage . That may sound middling unappealing , but it ’s a spread for the bioluminescent algae Noctiluca scintillans , which occasionally lights up the seacoast in neon blue blooms .
Image via AP / Kim Cheung
Berkeley Pit, Butte, Montana
This former open - pit copper mine is now one of the few places in the man where you may actually bear to see toxic waste . lounge within its acidic water are loading of heavy metals , include fuzz , iron , arsenic , cadmium , and zinc .
Image via Kris Taeleman / Getty Images
Image via Pit Watch
Yellow River, Lanzhou, China
China ’s Yellow River is ill-famed for its pollution . In the Lanzhou responsibility , the river is a number of a chameleon , changing from neon hot pink to ardour engine bolshy depending on the sewerage waste or hokey dyestuff du jour .
Image via China Daily / AP
Image via China Daily
Lake Erie, Michigan
Toxic algae blooms have become a raw material of summers at Lake Erie , and this year is no exception . Waves of unripe roll onshore as the bloom grows , feed by N and phosphorus rich runoff from tillage in Ohio and Indiana . The algae produce a toxin called microcystin that can cause rashes , hives , and asthma - similar symptoms if it comes in contact lens with your hide . Lovely .
South shore of Lake Erie on July 29th , 2015 . mental image via Washington Post via AP
On July 28 , 2015 , artificial satellite catch these epitome of algal flush around the Great Lakes . The bloom is seeable as swirls of green in western Lake Erie ( top ) and in Lake St. Clair ( bottom ) . Image via NASA Earth Observatory
Of of course , there are also plenty of unearthly lake and river around the world which get their unknown colors from natural phenomenon . Check out a roundup of the in force over atio9 .
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Top image : masses kayak in the Animas River near Durango , Colorado on Thursday , via Jerry McBride / AP
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