The stamp sands at Gay are what's left of the pper ore that was procsed at the nearby Mohawk Stamp Mill. In the early 1900's, the Mohawk Mg Company buil
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GAY STAMP SANDS
In Gay, Michigan, a large metal-rich 'halo' exists sediments around the Keweenaw. Vis the Gay Stamp Sands mappg webse to explore geospatial data products veloped unr this project. Gay Stamp Sands.
The stamp sands at Gay are what's left of the pper ore that was procsed at the nearby Mohawk Stamp Mill. The sands beach extends about 5 om the center of Traverse Bay to Gay.
5 and turn right onto Gay Road. Drive about 10 and turn right onto Gay Park Road. Gay’s stamp sands nta around 0.
GAY STAMP SANDS
Other metals the Gay sands clu alumum, arsenic, chromium, balt, mangane, nickel, lead, silver and zc - all at levels that exceed Michigan safety water qualy standards. At Gay, blowg dt om the unvered sands uld be harmful over a perd of long and regular exposure to human lungs.
In the 1980s when the EPA termed the boundari for the Torch Lake Superfund se, they did not clu the Gay sands.
PROJECT UNRWAY GAY TO HR SPREAD OF STAMP SANDS TO LAKE SUPERR
At Gay and Big Traverse Bay the predomant threat is to the environment - pecially to small anisims and to fish. But there is a virtual absence of juvenile fish along the stamp sand beach om the Gay sand pile southward to the Traverse River. The enomic and cultural impact to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Communy and to mercial and recreatnal fishg is beg signifint as Gay’s stamp sands ntue to ver Buffalo Reef.
Hight levels of pper are found nearshore om Gay to Traverse River. Duluth has found that stamp sands Gay and the Big Traverse Bay are. Mappg was foced offshore of the town of Gay on the Keweenaw Pensula of Michigan where ongog erosn and re-posn of the toxic stamp sands has buried of native, whe-sand beach.