The San Juan River flows into Lake Powell, which empties into the Colorado River, which supplies 5 million acre-feet of fresh water to drought-starved LA.”
DING DING DING We have a winner!
The Animas flows into the San Juan which flows into the Colorado. The Colorado supplies 90% of the water for Las Vegas and over 50% of the water in California south of the Tehachipi. This has the potential for an evironmental disaster of monumental proportions. The water supply for millions of people in the southwest is threatened unless the CoE does something.
Article mentions people are being warned not to swim in, or drink from the San Juan arm of lake Powell.
The crud has already reached lake Powell.
It supplies our water here in Phoenix also.
Does anyone remember how GW Bush was hammered for not wanting to continue Clinton's enviro regulations that would have required all municipal water to keep arsenic below 10 parts per million? A ridiculously expensive proposition for many towns and cities.
Albuquerque Battles to Leave Arsenic in the Water
And now the EPA has dumped arsenic, lead and mercury into the water by the ton.
Obama Administration vs. Tombstone(the short version of the story is that the 0bama Admin. attempts to wipe Tombstone off the map over arsenic in one of its two wells.)