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Originally Posted by ColoGuy
Thats like saying the rubber swimming pool owner is at fault when someone enters their back yard and slashes it open with a razor. Wasn't a problem until the EPA showed up and "accidentally" released the water. This is 100% the fault of the EPA.
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The common practice a long time ago especially when you have multiple mines like this site is to have drain tunnels, you're going to run into water when mining and that is how they removed it. That water would have been flowing into this river going back to when the mine was first started.
The typical remediation includes building a series of holding ponds that allows whatever is in the water to settle before it goes into the waterway. Locally in my area they also use aquatic plants, it's basically a man made wetland. It can have commercial value and ultimately that is probably what will happen with most of these sites nationwide.
As I understand it what they tried to do is plug the drainage tunnel, that water has to go somewhere and water always wins. The plug was apparently compromised spilling these millions of gallons all at once that had accumulated.
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