Water treatment plant along the edge of the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana. The pit was an open pit copper mine.

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Water treatment plant at Butte, Montana's Berkeley Pit. The pit was opened in 1955 was eventually became one mile long by half a mile wide with an approximate depth of 1780 ft.

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