An EPA crew accidentally unleashed 1 million gallons of wastewater (health care, terrorist, good news)

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by Goodnight

If they were designated a superfund site and a company met one of the 4 criteria they could be targeted, but that was not one of the reasons the local community resisted the superfund designation. They would also have to foot part of the bill for maintaining the sewage treatment plant and some other costs.

Designation of a superfund site does bring resources but at a cost, this is the alternative.

I think it more likely was all of the above.

[uggabugga]

an interesting letter to the editor published in the silverton standard 6 days before the EPA catastrophe.

[Kibby]

A lot of us found this in the comments section of an article in the Denver Post - I checked the Durango Herald and the Silverton Standard archives to try and find it. What we were all looking at was a photo or scan of the hard copy of the article. I guessed that it made the hard copy, but not the online edition. I guess people wrote into the paper to get it online.

The fascinating thing about this article (Letter to the Editor) is that the Geologist from Farminington, N.M read about the EPA plans in the Durango Paper (published a week before he wrote his editorial) and he explained in detail exactly what would happen after the EPA executed their "Band-Aid Solution".

This is part of why I've been saying all along - the EPA had to KNOW this plugging would fail - the plug of the American tunnel in 2006 caused the extra flow and pressurization in the Red & Bonita tunnel. Plugging the Red & Bonita (the 2014 plug) was always going to cause the Gold #7 to blow ..... particularly when they foolishly opened it to check "how high's the water Mama?"

They will be getting in Line to file Lawsuits against the EPA. States, Cities, Reservations, Businesses and possibly homeowners and ranchers (if they lose their wells and stock & irrigation water).

[Ih2puo]

Has Obama determined if this is important enough to talk about yet?

[Tilt11]

Originally Posted by Ih2puo

Has Obama determined if this is important enough to talk about yet?

Nope. Its not an oil company so he doesnt care. He cant use it politically.

[GJJG2012]

I read the amount was over 3 million gallons, IIRC. A river looking like cheese! Go near it & be sick. May cancel tourism until Spring.

Originally Posted by bluesjuke

Guess they need to heavily fine themselves.

EPA confirms Colorado mine spill contains heavy metals - KOAA.com | Continuous News | Colorado Springs and Pueblo

Federal environmental officials have confirmed the mustard-colored muck that surged into a river from a Colorado mine contained heavy metals including lead and arsenic, but they didn't immediately discuss amounts or health risks.

[pknopp]

If I spilled something at work and failed to report it for 24 hours, I am sure I would be fired.

[Tilt11]

Weird how media works today. Its almost like most the time you have to look at the stories they ARENT talking about. Then you know that is what you should be paying attention to and trying to find more info on. This is a big one. When has there ever been a spill like this that the media didnt eat up? Where politicians come out making their talking points? Silence. That alone tells you something is not right here.

[Goodnight]

Got to hand it to the attorneys general from the surrounding states unifying to take action against the EPA, now if they could only do the same for some of the thousands of mines that are polluting the head waters. Where have they been all these years.


Animas River spill leaves Colorado, neighbors weighing EPA lawsuit - The Denver Post

[Vascodagama]

So it looks like the EPA intentionally caused the spill ...

~the end justifies the means~

The EPA head should be prosecuted to the fullest extent