Posted on 07/10/2018 4:50:10 AM PDT by george76
Critics fear move will impact upper Animas River aquatic life.
Could the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to haul waste from the Gold King Mine to the banks of the upper Animas River put undue stress on a fishery already struggling to survive?
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Three months after the EPA triggered the Gold King Mine blowout in August 2015, the agency built a temporary water-treatment plant, in an area known as Gladstone, 10 miles north of Silverton within the Cement Creek watershed.
But for the past year, the EPA has said room is running out at Gladstone to store the waste byproduct from the water-treatment plant, which generates an estimated 4,600 cubic yards of sludge a year.
Last month, the EPA said it finally found a new place to store the sludge at a historic mine waste pile called the Kittimac tailings, about 6 miles northeast of Silverton along County Road 2.
The agency just recently began transporting truck-loads of sludge to the site, but one of those trucks crashed Monday into Cement Creek, spilling about 9 cubic yards of waste into the creek. It only heightened concerns about moving the sludge.
Even before the crash, critics say the move takes sludge loaded with potentially toxic metals from Cement Creek, a waterway long devoid of aquatic life, to the upper reaches of the Animas River, which supports fish and other aquatic life.
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storing the Gold King Mine’s sludge at Kittimac is only a temporary solution to a long-term problem.
(Excerpt) Read more at durangoherald.com ...
I want to know who was the moron that decided to dig into the SIDE of a containment pond, up hill from a major waterway?
And WHY? There is not one sensible reason to do that.
They triggered a multi-million dollar disaster they are STILL trying to manage.
It was under Odumbshit’s term in office.
Have we become the Soviet Union?
Has the greatest threat to the environment become the government agency tasked with protecting it?
Don’t be naïve, FRiend.
That environmental disaster was planned.
The goal was increased government control.
Democrats don’t care who lives or dies, just that their power is increased.
Why: EPA intentionally poisoned the River to secure SuperFund Money and power.
ht to Dave Taylor: a retired geologist, who published a letter in the local newspaper, one week before the planned, intentional EPA mine spill.
As to Who approved opening a stable mine that then caused this mess : Hussein and his pals.
OH I know... the questions were to get people to start ASKING it.
“We’re from the government, and we’re here to he’p you.”
Actually it was a plugged mine shaft.
There are better write ups on the disaster but this was the first one I found that got the basics down in a short article.
The Animus and other tributaries originating in Colorado ran yellow/orange for a century before the mines started shutting down after world war 2, long before the EPA came along, and the people in these watersheds aren’t cancer infested mutants. The mine runoff is low-pH water turbid with clay, various hydrated oxides of iron, and elevated levels of various metals, but it ain’t liquid sarin. People need to get a grip.
Mr. GG2 holds patents on a mobile processing plant he invented which you build on site. It grinds up mine tailings, removes all the toxic stuff, retains residue gold and silver and spits out a sanitized gravel on the other end which can be used to build roads. There are several large mines and a couple of coal fired power companies that want it they just don’t want to fool with building it unless he oversees the whole thing and he just wants to sell the patent. He has even met with the Asst Sec of the Interior under OFail but the govt never would commit. Each processing mill costs about $3 million to build. Peanuts for what it will do.
-—thanks for a sane assessment of the situation-—
Iron 248,582 Copper 919 Cobalt 10
Aluminum 23,657 Sodium 586 Antimony 8
Calcium 11,365 Barium 244 Nickel 7
Magnesium 6,984 Arsenic 206 Mercury 6
Potassium 5,307 Vanadium 137 Cadmium 4
Lead 4,481 Molybdenum 50 Beryllium 3
Manganese 1,953 Silver 28 Selenium n.d.
Zinc 1,101 Chromium 18 Thallium n.d
Pounds found in water samples taken. Go ahead and drink it.
Nature actually cleans it up pretty quickly. Clay, oxygen, and microbes entrain and floc it rapidy, locking the majority up in sediments. Again, that stuff ran freely for a century off the Colorado plateau and we don’t see communities devastated by carcinomas and birth defects. You are just adding to the hysteria.
Go ahead and drink it.
You sound like you have a child’s intellect.
Go ahead and drink it.
Clearly you are incapable of refuting the points I made above and will stick to your school playground talking point.
Go ahead and drink it.
Evidently there is only one arrow in your quiver.
Drink it if you think it is so safe.
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