Snow samples from Mount Shasta are contaminated with aluminum. Pure white snow at

8,000-foot elevation on Mount Shasta had 61,100 parts per billion (ppb) of aluminum,

over 4 times more than the mud beneath the snow and tens of thousands of times the

expected maximum level in a snow sample. The samples also contained 83 ppb of

barium and 383 ppb of strontium. The only route for these heavy metals to ent

er the precipitation system is from the aerosolized clouds.

 

A rainwater test conducted in 2013 on Mount Shasta contained 13,100 ppb of aluminum, 130 ppb of barium and 138 ppb of strontium. These amounts are undrinkable by state standards, at 13 times the

allowable limit. Lab reports of aluminum in precipitation range from ppb13,100 ppb correlated to jet spraying. Occasionally, measurements show no amount of these contaminants,showing that the levels vary according to outside influences, and also that there is no other nearby constant source of contamination.

 

The Mount Shasta city water report indicates that aluminum, barium, strontium, lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, boron and chromium are not yet in city water

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Sugar Pine Canyon Creek (a tributary of Lake Shasta) in Redding, CA, has 4,600,000 ppb of aluminum (normal soil is 15,000 ppb) in the upper and lower stream. The soil in this area would typically have less than 40,000 ppb in an insoluble form.