EPA spill: 'We looked at the river and we cried'

CNN ^ | August 11, 2015 | Dana Ford and Ed Payne

[Zakeet]

From his backyard in Durango, Colorado, Tom Bartles can see the Animas River, which was stained an unnatural orange.

The Environmental Protection Agency accidentally released millions of gallons of pollutants into the water last week, turning the typically blue water to the color of mustard.

"Everybody in town knew it was coming. It was hard to wake up in the morning and see an orange river," Bartles, 52, told CNN. "Many of the locals in this region are probably going to experience a certain level of mourning."

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Officials said they believe the spill carried metals, mainly iron, zinc and copper, into a creek that feeds into the Animas.

Wednesday's spill caused a spike in concentrations of total and dissolved metals in the water, the EPA said. It's unclear exactly what effect that will have.

[Zakeet]

You Freepers should know that this mess was caused by global warming ... government incompetence had absolutely nothing to do with it!

[Caipirabob]

Knowing the EPA and what they did to California, it is easy to believe this was done completely, absolutely intentionally to create a water crisis in Colorado. I guess they felt all that rain of late was "Too much of a good thing".

Crying? They should be swinging.

[Gaffer]

Obama’s River of Tears.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Mistakes were made and a blue-ribbon fact-finding commission will look into this. A report will be issued next year. It will receive 30 seconds of coverage in the news: "Mistakes were made."

And that will be the end of it.

[Ann Archy]

Who is the LESBIAN?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Imagine if this happened when Bush was president.

24 Hour media circus.

Drudge sirens.

Calls for the president to end his vacation.

Chuck Schumer racing for a camera.

Liberal having fainting spells and die-ins.

BTW, the Iran nuclear deal did have one salutatory effect, Chuck Schumer observed 72 hours of radio silence.

[Adder]

And sueing.

They ripped BP a new one for the spill that didn’t do much damage. Whole businesses here and whole towns are affected by the bumbling boobs.

Think I read somewhere one kayak tour company was only open to offer refunds. Folks need to be made whole. EPA should be treated like they would a private business....

[Zakeet]

Who is the LESBIAN?

Gina McCarthy, the current head of the EPA.

According to this, she is married and has three kids ... although your guess is as good as mine as to how either happened.

[W.]

Looks like Bill Clinton’s sister. Har!

[george76]

May not be accidental.

Part of their UN Agenda 21 ?

And closing lost cost energy production operations thru crazy regulations, for example.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Meanwhile, this same group will not let me get a little dirt in the creek near our property because of the Carolina Heelsplitter freshwater clam, designated threatened species.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[clearcarbon]

Just another casualty of the mis-administration in the EPA path of destruction. The name “environmental protection agency” has joined the ranks of other brilliant names like “the affordable care act.” DemRATs have a flare for newspeak.

[OttawaFreeper]

Oh my, and this is courtesy of the same people who some day want single payer, government run healthcare as advocated by such luminaries as Jon Stewart and Bernie Sanders or think that you should not be having a gun for protection as you are better off being protected by the police.

[Joe Boucher]

I’ve fished this river just south of Durango. It WAS absolutely beautiful.
Eliminate the EPA and enslave all its workers.

[nikos1121]

Anything from Trump on this?

[bolobaby]

More importantly, imagine if it BP or Exxon did it...

[wideawake]

Did the crying work? Is it clean now?

[FlingWingFlyer]

The envirowacko hippies strke again. They screw up EVERYTHING they touch! Everything!

[smokingfrog]

Has Maxine Waters weighed in on this?

Just wondering.