[crz]

I shoulda read all the posts on this thread. That spill, comes from old mine sites...Gold mine sites. They are trying to claim its just Iron and Zink etc. Then, they say the reason they were messing with it was because of acid contamination.

Fact is..the stuff is loaded with mercury, and all the other things used to extract gold back in the day.

There are now no swimming and fishing alerts for Lake Powell. Where does that river run to after it goes through the Glen Canyon Dam?

OH but it will settle out! Ya right! That crap is water soluble and they can whine all they want. How many rapids are in the Grand Canyon?

[JohnBovenmyer]

Back in their mining era (1860 CO rush started to 1921 for this mine) that stuff probably went down the same streams untreated. Little or no regulation for most of that time. So its already been there. Passage of time had fixed it.

[Paladin2]

"all the other things used to extract gold back in the day"

Cyanide

[ridesthemiles]

The Grand Canyon.

[Paladin2]

http://blog.yourwatercolorado.org/2015/03/19/animas-river-stakeholders-group-an-unlikely-alliance-for-watershed-health-in-the-san-juans/