Comments on: “Gold tailings as a source of waterborne uranium contamination of streams – The Koekemoerspruit as a case study” published in Water SA 30 (2) 219-240

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4 October 2004 547Available on website 1 Paper title. The title suggests that this series of papers deals with the effect of tailings damson the Koekemoerspruit. 2 Study area. The declared study area is the lower reaches of the Koekemoerspruit. In fact the study area actually described consists of only two small, widely separated sites in the area, viz. Margaret shaft with its associated trench discharging to the Koekemoerspruit, and the gauging weir several kms downstream. It does not include the discharge of treated sewage water into the Koekemoerspruit at a point approximately midway between the two study points.

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