Gold King Mine was planned sabotage, NOT “an accident”!
Any geologist or hydrogeologist would have known that the Gold King tunnels were full of water. There were natural springs above the tunnel level seeping away. That alone shows that the fractured rocks of the mountain were saturated with water. The EPA were such idiots digging out the reasonably stable collapse at the tunnel entrance. They were upset about a little acidic seep which could have been captured in some settling ponds and neutralized with lime.
The Gold King spill was EPA stupidity.
Why?
What was motive?