EPA Will Drill Into Mine Tunnel North Of Silverton As Part Of Superfund Cleanup ( Colorado)

ap ^ | Jun 8, 2019

[george76]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to drill a test well into an inactive mine tunnel in southwestern Colorado to get information for a Superfund cleanup, the agency said Friday.

The EPA said it will drill into the American Tunnel next month to measure water levels and investigate how the passage is connected to other shafts.

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The agency designated the Superfund site after it inadvertently ( LOL ) triggered a spill while doing excavation work at the inactive Gold King Mine in August 2015. The spill released 3 million gallons of wastewater, polluting rivers in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.

The Gold King is part of the Superfund cleanup.

[george76]

A week before the EPA intentionally dumped millions of gallons of orange, toxic waste into the river , a letter to the editor was published in The Silverton Standard, authored by a retired geologist detailing how EPA would foul the Animas River on purpose in order to secure superfund money... -- Dave Taylor, from Farmington, New Mexico :: “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,”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3325143/posts

[george76]

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)

[kearnyirish2]

Here in NJ we have a Superfund site (the Ringwood Mines) that has been re-listed after being deemed safe; seems to be a cash cow for companies to park utility-type trucks with sleeping workers in them around old iron mine pits. Decades ago, Ford dumped tons of paint sludge into the abandoned shafts; they then donated the land to the government, and nearby residents are complaining about issues with the groundwater.

My town is all over the news here as they try to close one of the last open dumps; as a child I remember seeing less and less of the NYC skyline as the garbage dumps grew. In a few decades I suspect they’ll have housing built on top of that as well...

[FreedomPoster]

[rlmorel]

At the time, that was a shock to me. It was pretty clear (to me) the EPA knew in advance of the danger, so they not only weren’t ignorant of it, they knew it was going to happen.

That still shocks me that they would do that intentionally, but I could not read it any other way.

[EQAndyBuzz]

We had a site in Edison that was a superfund site. Turns out a beach club was built on the site and after the township found out, they permanently closed the beach club and brought in the cleanup crews. I believe now it is a parking lot for big rigs.

[Joe Boucher]

Hi, I’m from the E.P.A. And I’m here to help?....
After odungo, i do not trust any aspect of the damned federal gub mint.
Hi, I’m from the F.A.A. And I’m here to help?
Bull shit.

[HighSierra5]

My conspiracy theory as to why that mine was flushed out was that it is a tactic to extract or expose gold from the strata quickly. I saw a show where the Romans did the same thing in Spain.

[polymuser]

“...the EPA is setting your town and the area up for a possible Superfund blitzkrieg,”

Sounds likely, since they knew so much beforehand.

BIG fed money + bureaucrats + gov contractors = _________________?

[G Larry]

It wasn't ONLY to establish a Superfund site,

It was to ensure NO DEVELOPMENT on THOUSANDS OF ACRES of land.

"Development" does NOT mean condos!

[lurk]

The EPA. The punchline to a joke. Like hiring the three Stooges to re-roof your house.

[george76]

EPA plans may include :: bulldozing whole mining sites and destroying historic structures.

Colorado’s top office for ensuring historic preservation is concerned about the Environmental Protection Agency’s impacts to mine sites around Silverton as the EPA embarks on a massive Superfund cleanup .

In fall 2016, the EPA listed 48 mining-related sites around Silverton as the “Bonita Peak Mining District Superfund” in the hopes of improving water quality in the upper Animas River watershed.

Almost immediately, many people in Silverton, which has a population of about 600, voiced concern that the EPA’s activities could adversely impact relics of the town’s mining past, important to tourism, as well as the community’s identity.

https://durangoherald.com/articles/280404-is-epa-protecting-mining-history-around-superfund-site

[null and void]

Here in NJ we have a Superfund site (the Ringwood Mines) that has been re-listed after being deemed safe;

They can do that?

Time to sell the house I got as a booby prize in the divorce.

[MileHi]

If the EPA was a private entity, people high up would be in prison. But since it’s the EPA, they get a huge budget increase.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Re: Your tag line.

Not having heard anything out of Churchill the Fake, I looked around.

In April 2009 a Denver jury found that Churchill was unjustly fired, awarding him $1 in damages. In July 2009, a District Court judge vacated the monetary award and declined Churchill’s request to order his reinstatement...

...upheld the lower-court’s ruling ...

United States Supreme Court declined to hear the case.

A fun remembrance.

[george76]

After all, with a budget of $8.2 billion and 17,000 employees, the EPA needs new, big projects to feed the beast and justify their existence.. ~Dave Taylor.

[george76]

Churchill had received a $115,000 annual salary (for teaching three hours per week - summers & holidays off), apart from benefits and speaking fees.

[MtnClimber]

What could go wrong?

[kearnyirish2]

Sounds like they just capped it instead of removing it...

[kearnyirish2]

They had no choice; hikers in the surrounding woods were posting photos of “sludgeballs” lying around. It was clear the work was never completed...