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EPA Says It Released 3 Million Gallons Of Contaminated Water Into River.

An estimated 1 million gallons of waste water spilled out of an abandoned mine area in the southern part of the state last week, turning the Animas River orange and prompting the Environmental Protection Agency to tell locals to avoid it.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/09/us/colorado-epa-mine-river-spill/ “Fundamentally changed pristine clean rivers of America!”


30 posted on 01/24/2017 3:59:34 PM PST by Eddie01
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“EPA Says It Released 3 Million Gallons Of Contaminated Water Into River.”

I heard that the spill enabled them to make the area a Superfund site, which they wanted and residents fought for YEARS.


47 posted on 01/24/2017 6:28:27 PM PST by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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