Pittsburgh stream turns red; not due to mine drainage
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Nine Mile Run looked like tomato soup in early June, the result of a municipal drinking water pipe that ruptured in a nearby neighborhood.
The incident, which occurred June 4 during a prolonged dry weather spell, sent opaque, orangey-red water rushing over the run’s boulder clusters and rocks as it made its way to the Monongahela River. Cyclists, hikers and other visitors to Frick Park snapped cellphone images, took to social media and contacted the Nine Mile Run watershed group, UpstreamPittsburgh, to express alarm.
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