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Epic Fail EPA! Three Million, Not One Million, Toxic Mine Water ‘Accidentally’ Released by EPA in Colorado River! — First Hand Report (Video) (Video)
Epic Fail EPA! Toxic Mine Water “Accidentally” Released by EPA in Colorado River! What Does The “P” in EPA Stand For Anyway?
10 Aug 15
My son and I visited the “dump site” this weekend. Even his small dog got the shakes as we approached the poisoned waters, so we backed off. The stench was repelling, what dangers lie beneath?
What Does The “P” in EPA Stand For Anyway? Where the heak is the protection anyway? Thousands are affected by this catastrophe! And it is spreading, heading into Farmnington New Mexico, out to Utah and who knows the far-reaching implications and dangers? The weeds, bush, rocks and soil along the river is saturated with a horrible-smelling YELLOW. The EPA is already, predictably, LYING about the amount of spillage. It was THREE MILLION not a million gallons of POISONOUS contaminated water spilled! “oops”?
Are we seeing Wormwood in its beginning stages here? Folks, one never knows what will happen day-to-day. ALWAYS be prepared, particularly with extra, non-poisoned water on hand. The grocery stores in Durango are already sold out of water. BEWARE!
What did the EPA have to say? “we’re sorry”. Terrific, we all feel better now. They placed caged fish into the water and claim that “only one” of the fish died. Oh, heak… it’s all clear then, huh? Just hope you’re not that “one fish” in the future….
HERE IS WHAT YOU ADDITIONALY NEED TO BE AWARE OF:
So far, the EPA is admitting to lead, arsinic, cadmiim, aluminum, copper & calcium in the WATER.
The Animas River is CLOSED
The EPA CLAIMS that it is safe to use municipal water to drink, but ask for conservation. (Who knows how long the effects of this POISONING will be)
EPA pollutes Colo. river during mine cleanup
The Environmental Protection Agency took responsibility Friday for inadvertently polluting a Colorado river with 1 million gallons of toxic orange wastewater while trying to clean up an abandoned gold mine.
The spill occurred Wednesday morning at a long-closed Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colo., and fouled the Animas River, a 126-mile-long tributary of the San Juan River, part of the Colorado River system.
Durango stopped pumping water out of the river to keep from contaminating the city reservoir, and a stretch of the Animas was closed Thursday. Officials are monitoring the flow as it heads toward New Mexico and Utah.
Wednesday evening, hundreds of Durango residenta lined the riverbanks to watch the eerie flow.
At a community meeting Friday afternoon, EPA officials reported that water samples contained heavy metals, including lead, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum, copper and calcium, plus sediment. They did not discuss possible health or environmental impacts but said water quality was improving and there appeared to be no immediate health hazard.
EPA officials said although most of the contamination had moved through the Durango area Friday, the river would remained closed.
“We are very sorry for what happened. This is a huge tragedy,” Dave Ostrander, who handles emergencies for the EPA’s Denver-based Region 8, told the Durango residents.
“It’s hard being on the other side of this,” he added. “Typically, we respond to emergencies, we don’t cause them. … It’s something we sincerely regret.”
The disaster happened as the EPA began work to pump wastewater out the leaking mine, which first opened in 1887, and treat it in containment ponds. After an EPA-supervised crew excavated the entrance of the mine, a small trickle of dirty water quickly became a wall of acidic sludge that poured out for an hour into a nearby creek that empties into the Animas. Read More
3 million, not 1 million, gallons of contaminated water rushed from mine, EPA says. True confessions surfacing?
The Environmental Protection Agency on Sunday tripled its estimate of how much contaminated water gushed out of Gold King Mine and slipped into the Animas River in Wednesday’s blowout – up to 3 million gallons from an initial estimate of 1 million gallons.
One million gallons of water is equal to about two Olympic-size swimming pools, meaning about six Olympic-size swimming pools of wastewater came downstream.
The revised estimate helps scientists better understand how much contaminated material Gold King Mine released into the region’s most important waterway, the Animas River, and how the pollution will settle in coming months, Shaun McGrath, EPA administrator for Region 8 in Denver, said to a crowd of more than 500 that gathered Sunday night at Miller Middle School.
The EPA revised its estimate after reviewing a U.S. Geological Survey stream gauge on Cement Creek.
“This is critical information for us,” McGrath said. “Now we have a much more reliable estimate of the volume that will help us with our work on modeling how this behaved and will continue to behave over the coming weeks and months.”
Heavy metals will settle on the riverbed as the tail of the plume travels downstream.
“We do expect over the coming months and years as there are surges in the river that sediment can get kicked up,” McGrath said. “We’ll really need to have longterm monitoring plans.”
Political, environmental and community fallout from the Gold King Mine blowout continued to escalate Sunday as the EPA released preliminary data showing steep increases in the levels of metal pollution immediately after the catastrophe in the Animas River. The EPA confirmed it is seriously considering declaring parts of Silverton a Superfund site. READ MORE
Toxic mine water accidentally released by EPA in Colorado river flows south
A cloud of orange-brown, toxic mine water and sludge accidentally released by the US Environmental Protection Agency is flowing down the Animas River through the hearts of towns in Colorado and New Mexico, and ultimately toward a lake in a national park.
The water, described as an “unnatural” orange color and loaded with heavy metals, was flowing through a stretch of wilderness as of Friday afternoon from Durango, Colorado toward Farmington, New Mexico. It is flowing toward the western edge of the Navajo Nation and along the Glen Canyon national recreation area in Utah.
The same area of wilderness in Utah contains well-known red rock cliffs and terraces in Utah, such as Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
“It’s awful, it’s awful,” said San Juan County undersheriff Stephen Lowrance. “It’s [a] horrible, horrible accident.”
“It’s, like I said, an orange-ish brown. You wouldn’t want to drink it – that’s for sure,” said Lowrance. Lowrance and another sheriff’s deputy were at the site of the spill almost instantly when an estimated 1m gallons of mine wastewater was released into Cement Creek north of Silverton, Colorado, a tiny town with just more than 600 people. Read more
EPA Spills “Arsenic Yellow Sludge In A River From Colorado to New Mexico
#epa #coloradoriver #animasriver #durango #wormwood
Maybe you should look at the benefits of an intentional release.