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Orange Mine Waste Flowing Toward Farmington (EPA Spill Destroying the Environment)
KOB4 ^ | 08/07/2015 | Danielle Todesco

Posted on 08/07/2015 11:54:03 AM PDT by nickcarraway

The Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public meeting in Durango to discuss mine waste contamination of the Animas River Friday afternoon.

The EPA said its workers triggered the release of a million gallons of waste while using heavy machinery to investigate pollutants at the Gold King Mine north of Silverton, Colorado.

The agency plans to answer questions and share information about the waste at the board room of the County Administration Building at 1101 E. 2nd Avenue in Durango. The meeting is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.

KOB's crew reported seeing the sludge cross the state line into New Mexico around 9:50 a.m. Officials expect it to hit Farmington Friday evening.

The EPA says it will complete chemistry testing within 24 to 48 hours, although that deadline keeps extending. Officials think the waste is just filled with iron and zinc.

"We are demanding from the U.S. EPA an immediate release of detailed information on the type of contaminants that is flowing into the river from the Gold King Mine," President Begaye said in a statement Friday. "This is an all too familiar story on the lax oversight responsibility of the U.S. government."

Emergency management in Farmington has closed off any access points in the river that could get into the drinking water. The Animas River will stay closed off for the next few days as the waste passes through. Crews plan to put more water into the river to dilute it Friday morning.

A call center has been set up for the public at (970)-385-8700.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government; US: Colorado; US: New Mexico; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: epa; erinbrockovich; goldkingmine; navajonation; water
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So the Environmental Destruction Agency is spilling orange waste into our rivers? Are they going to get Oompa Loompas to clean it up?

Wasn't the EDA created by Richard M. Nixon?



1 posted on 08/07/2015 11:54:04 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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2 posted on 08/07/2015 11:54:17 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: CedarDave

NM ping

EPA Bastards


3 posted on 08/07/2015 11:56:52 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: nickcarraway

Augustas Gloop! Nooooo!


4 posted on 08/07/2015 11:56:54 AM PDT by rey
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The BooBocracy strikes again.

They need to swear an oath to not do any damage like doctors do.. Call it a hypocritic Oath or such..

Stupid swine..


5 posted on 08/07/2015 11:56:54 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: nickcarraway
"The EPA said its workers triggered the release of a million gallons of waste while using heavy machinery to investigate pollutants at the Gold King Mine north of Silverton, Colorado."

Heads need to roll.

6 posted on 08/07/2015 11:59:57 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: nickcarraway

So can we sue EPA into oblivion and force their shut down? No, I didn’t think so...


7 posted on 08/07/2015 12:00:23 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: nickcarraway

So will they charge their own officials for this travesty?


8 posted on 08/07/2015 12:00:43 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: nickcarraway

A lot of programs like this sound great at their inception.

Then reality hits.

I don’t seen any mention of the EPA being sorry this took place.


9 posted on 08/07/2015 12:00:47 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (If the fetus at one minute old is not alive, what is it?)
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To: Jim Robinson

clean up should come out of their damn budget


10 posted on 08/07/2015 12:01:18 PM PDT by telstar12.5 (...always bring gunships to a gun fight...)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Better than when they blew up the dam on the upper Hudson River at the General Electric transformer plant. All the PCB’s were safely burried under millions of tons of muck and silt. Instead they blasted the dam and dumped millions of tons of PCB laden sediment downstream, ruining the ecosystem. I still think you can’t eat the fish. That was in the early 70’s I think. Right after Nixon left.


11 posted on 08/07/2015 12:01:57 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

They usually only destroy the economy and the livelihoods of the middle class.


12 posted on 08/07/2015 12:02:40 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: Truth29

EPA, here is your fine, you are shut down and out of business.


13 posted on 08/07/2015 12:03:13 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: Truth29
So proves our past president correct...........

"I'm here from the government to help you"

14 posted on 08/07/2015 12:03:27 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: nickcarraway

The harmed communities must do to EPA as they would do to any corporation that did this, including takedown of its leaders, and nothing less.


15 posted on 08/07/2015 12:03:53 PM PDT by polymuser ( Enough is enough)
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To: Jim Robinson

Wonder what they were smoking?


16 posted on 08/07/2015 12:03:59 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Let Baal plead for Baal because one has destroyed his altar!)
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To: nickcarraway

kakistocracy, n. See U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.


17 posted on 08/07/2015 12:04:06 PM PDT by Carl Vehse ( e)
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To: nickcarraway

First they send US Forest workers to start fires in our forests, then prevent local fire departments from putting it out, burning hundreds of thousand of acres instead of just 30 or 40.

Now this


18 posted on 08/07/2015 12:05:01 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: rey; Jim Robinson; NormsRevenge

I heard Obama said: “”Orangie, you’re doing a heck of a job,”


19 posted on 08/07/2015 12:07:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

The clean up should be paid for by money saved in the total closure of the EPA. After the cost of clean up the country would save that amount every year in the future.


20 posted on 08/07/2015 12:08:02 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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