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Superfund Money to Clean 'Mouth of the Beast'

The Iron Mountain Mine was the largest copper mine at the beginning of the 1900s but now is blamed for the deaths of thousands of fish in what geologists call the \"world's worst water.\" At left, copper-laden water fills a small reservoir in the area of the Iron Mountain Mine cleanup. (Robert Durell / Special to the Chronicle)

Redding, California - Rick Sugarek knows not to splash through the puddles inside "the mouth of the beast."

That is what he calls the gaping wound near Redding known to everybody else as the Iron Mountain Mine, which is widely regarded by scientists as one of the most polluted places in the world.