Posted on 07/10/2018 4:50:10 AM PDT by george76
Critics fear move will impact upper Animas River aquatic life.
Could the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to haul waste from the Gold King Mine to the banks of the upper Animas River put undue stress on a fishery already struggling to survive?
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Three months after the EPA triggered the Gold King Mine blowout in August 2015, the agency built a temporary water-treatment plant, in an area known as Gladstone, 10 miles north of Silverton within the Cement Creek watershed.
But for the past year, the EPA has said room is running out at Gladstone to store the waste byproduct from the water-treatment plant, which generates an estimated 4,600 cubic yards of sludge a year.
Last month, the EPA said it finally found a new place to store the sludge at a historic mine waste pile called the Kittimac tailings, about 6 miles northeast of Silverton along County Road 2.
The agency just recently began transporting truck-loads of sludge to the site, but one of those trucks crashed Monday into Cement Creek, spilling about 9 cubic yards of waste into the creek. It only heightened concerns about moving the sludge.
Even before the crash, critics say the move takes sludge loaded with potentially toxic metals from Cement Creek, a waterway long devoid of aquatic life, to the upper reaches of the Animas River, which supports fish and other aquatic life.
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storing the Gold King Mine’s sludge at Kittimac is only a temporary solution to a long-term problem.
(Excerpt) Read more at durangoherald.com ...
Nothing is “safe” cupcake.
Safe to assume you live somewhere on the Animas downstream and get your domestic water and irrigation from it?
Go ahead and drink it.
Plenty of topics about the Obama-era EPA-caused toxic spill, including one about a lawsuit brought by one of the western tribes.
EPA Withheld Key Info On Post-Spill Funding To Gold King Mine Culprit
Daily Caller | August 25, 2016 | Ethan Barton
Posted on 08/26/2016 6:44:51 AM PDT by bobsunshine
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3463104/posts
Gee, you’ve got eco-warrior talking points memorized, don’t you. Now, that you’ve quoted (from some EPA? ? reference ) for supposed totals of something somewhere, tell us the measured concentrations. 9 cubic yards of clay deposits from one truck is a catastrophe?
U of AZ buddy. Put up a copy of your PHD on here would you?
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