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“can you cut off the top part. and put the date and publication on it?”

Here ya go:

Quote:EPA plan is really a ‘superfund blitzkrieg’ [July 30]
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/08/letter-to-editor-predicted-colorado-epa-spill-one-week-before-catastrophe-so-epa-could-secure-superfund-cash/

(The Silverton Standard and The Miner does not have a Letters to Ed page, so the above reference is to the Pundit site which printed the letter)

I came to Silverton this summer to enjoy a simple life with no TV and no politics, but unfortunately that has changed. Your EPA dilemma has caused my blood to boil.

Based on my 47 years of experience as a professional geologist, it appears to me that the EPA is setting your town and the area up for a possible Superfund blitzkrieg. In regards to your meeting with the EPA on June 23, Mr. Hestmark’s (EPA representative) statement “we don’t have an agenda” is either ignorant naivety or outright falsehood. I am certain Mr. Hestmark’s hydrologists have advised him what’s going to happen when the Red & Bonita portals and plugged and the “grand experiment” begins with unknown and foreseeable results and possible negative consequences.

Here’s the scenario that will occur based on my experience:
Following the plugging, the [unintelligible] water will be retained behind the bulkheads, accumulating at a rate of approximately 500 gallons per minute. As the water backs up, it will begin filling all connected mine workings and bedrock voids and fractures. As the water level inside the workings continue to rise, it will accumulate head pressure at a rate of 1 psi per each 2.31 feet of vertical rise. As the water continues to migrate through and fill interconnected workings, the pressure will increase. Eventually, without a doubt, the water will find a way out and will ex filtrate uncontrollably through connected abandoned shafts, drifts, raises, fractures and possibly from talus on the hillsides. Initially it will appear that the miracle fix is working. “hallelujah!”

But make no mistake, with seven to 120 days all of the 500 gpm flow will return to cement creek. Contamination may actually increase due to disturbance and flushing action withing the workings.

The “grand experiment” in my opinion will fail. And guess what Mr. Hestmark will say then? Gee, “Plan A” didn’t work so I guess we will have to build a treatment plant at a cost to taxpayers of $100 million to $500 million. Reading between the lines, I believe that has been the EPA’s plan all along. The proposed Red & Bonita plugging plan has been their way of getting a foot in the door to justify their hidden agenda for a treatment plant. After all, with a budget of $8.2 billion and 17,000 employees, the EPA needs new, big projects to feed the best and justify their existence. I would recommend that anyone who owns a home, property water well or spring in the cement creek drainage take water samples ASAP to protect themselves from ground water changes that maybe caused by the EPA plugging operation! God bless America. God bless Silverton, Colorado. And God protect us from the EPA.

Dave Taylor, Farmington