From what I understand lead does not react at all with water, only a problem if it is ingested whole.

As soon as I saw this post I ran down to Olympia and applied for a lead-mining permit. It only took about 5 minutes to get one. They tried to make me take one that would apply to all of the rivers in the state, but I thought that would be more than my small operation could handle. So I just got one for the Blue Creek area. Exploratory sampling has shown there is a lead deposit of between 30,000,000 and 60,000,000 metric tons there. Dredging and excavating will begin tomorrow! I figured it would be ok because about 1/2 of its mine anyway! laugh
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