I’m sure the contractor did what is really important— contributed massively to the DNC and its candidates.
Too late to stop payment on that check?
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The company admits that they were on-site at the time of the release, but is otherwise stonewalling:
http://www.erllc.com/pdfs/Gold-King-Press-Release.pdf
He states:
Based on my 47 years of experience as a professional geologist, it appears to me that the EPA is setting your town and the area up for a possible Superfund blitzkrieg. . . .
Here’s the scenario that will occur based on my experience:
Following the plugging, the exfiltrating water will be retained behind the bulkheads, accumulating at a rate of approximately 500 gallons per minute. As the water backs up, it will begin filling all connected mine workings and bedrock voids and fractures. As the water level inside the workings continues to rise, it will accumulate head pressure at a rate of 1 PSI per each 2.31 feet of vertical rise. As the water continues to migrate through and fill interconnected workings, the pressure will increase. Eventually, without a doubt. The water will find a way out and will exfiltrate uncontrollably through connected abandoned shafts, drifts, raises, factures and possibly talus on the hillsides. Initially it will appear that the miracle fix is working.
“Hallelujah!”
But make no mistake, with in seven to 120 days all of the 500 gpm flow will return to Cement Creek. Contamination may actually increase due to the disturbance and flushing action within the workings.
The “grand experiment” in my opinion will fail. And guess what [the EPA] will say then?
Gee, “Plan A” didn’t work so I guess we will have to build a treatment plant at a cost to taxpayers of $100 million to $500 million (who knows). . . .
God bless America! God bless Silverton, Colorado. And God protect us from the EPA.
Obama bundlers at Solyndra got even more than that.
See this link: Geologist said a week before the visit: You better get your water tested!"
This was a guy who wrote a letter to the editor of a local paper out there, decrying the visit in advance (on July 30th).
From his use of terminology and discussion and that, by the way, he has worked as a geologist for 47 years, he sounded to me like he knew EXACTLY what he was talking about.
He said they were going to do just what he described, and oh, it will be a terrible accident, but money will be made available to "clean up the site" because of it.
The whole thing stinks. If it was an accident, nobody loses their job? Nobody gets reprimanded? Not contracts are re-evaluated?
"Oh, they would NEVER, ever, put the environment a risk intentionally, for no reason. That is a right-wing conspiracy theory because she is a woman in a male-dominated field, and works for Obama."
Is it, now?
The EPA was hiding the name of the contractor because it does not want it to get out that what happened was:
Accidentally On Purpose!
wasnt that about the same amount the developers of the obamacare website got?
Why would EPA try to keep the contractor secret? They would be liable for the damages and EPA would normally want to hang the offender out to dry, no?
“like a rotten mackerel in the moonlight, this shines and stinks”