By the Houston Chronicle Editorial Board
January 12, 2023
You wouldn’t expect to find a 60-acre saltwater lake in the middle of a parched stretch of land in West Texas.
Then again, referring to this particular body of water – known as Lake Boehmer – as merely a “lake” is deceptive. You wouldn’t want to fish or swim in this lake, and taking a sip from it would almost certainly send you to the hospital. That’s because Lake Boehmer is basically an active industrial accident, the result of a toxic fountain gushing 200 gallons per minute of briny, salty, contaminated water out of a long-abandoned well head.
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