If they had turned this area around Silverton into a Superfund site, they would have had plenty of money to do it right. But that is bad for the tourist business.
The point is ..... it was the EPA that created the spill !!
The wonderful government!
(on my Montana news, they wouldn’t say that it was an EPA mistake, goof, blunder
Yeah, here in MONTANA we also have an equal number of mines, active, abandoned and not listed.
Butte is a huge super fund site as are others,,,
Basin MT is also...
What do YOU plan to do about it? (how much of YOUR money should go to remediation... anywhere?)
I think they might not WANT to address this competently. They want to further the meme of Bad! Bad! Mine!
“There’s tens of thousands of these abandoned mines in Colorado, with acidic drainage. Even more thru-out the west.”
Interesting. I lived for a year in a little mountain town above Boulder, named Ward. I love Colorado, just not the liberals that now infest too much of it, lol. But where I lived in the foothills many years ago was positively beautiful, and at night up there it was if the stars were balancing on the very tip of your nose, they were so close.
I lived in a beautiful log cabin on the other side of Boulder Creek. You had to walk across a wooden footbridge to get to my cabin. The creek went down into a little gorge where you could see the trout frolicking where the water pooled into a basin. Hummingbirds came to the feeders on the porch around my cabin, and there I resided with my pot bellied stove, my two dogs, and my car without snow tires. It was the lack of snow tires that finally forced me to move down out of the foothills, lol. That was when I was in my mountain woman phase, when young and fancy free. I remember it fondly.