Yellow mine waste water is seen at the entrance to the Gold King Mine in San Juan County, Colorado, in this picture released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) taken August 5, 2015. A contaminated plume of waste water accidentally released from a Colorado gold mine by U.S. environmental agency workers has spread downstream and reached northern New Mexico, officials said on Saturday. REUTERS/EPA/Handout
So who breached the “damn” dam and how and why?
I do not know what the intentions were to do with the water before it was breached. Maybe there was just finger pointing while the polluted water went higher and higher.
Does Superfund need to wait till something like that turns into a tragic spill?
Looks like they intentionally dug at the retaining berm until it failed.
Which is what they would have had to do to begin with.