Dam Failure Could Bring Toxic Cocktail Rolling Through Jackson

JACKSON (CBS13) — A major problem could be threatening the city of Jackson is El Nino delivers heavy rain with more than just flooding.The nearly 100-year-old private dam was part of an old mining site that was shut down in 1942. Old chemicals used to mine gold have been left behind.“Sometimes they use mercury; sometimes they use cyanide to extract the rest of the gold they can’t reach,” said Tami Trearse with the California Environmental Protection Agency.She says if the