Posted on 08/10/2015 12:53:26 PM PDT by Kartographer
Tribal officials with the Navajo Nation declared an emergency as a massive plume of contaminated wastewater from an abandoned Colorado mine flowed down the San Juan River on Monday toward Lake Powell in Utah, which supplies much of the water to the Southwest.
Some drinking water systems on the Navajo Nation, which spans parts of New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, have shut down their intake systems and stopped diverting water from the river.
Drinking water is being hauled to some communities.
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You can still fish there. The only problem is the mud killed all the fish.
“Federal Gov’t and NM- remember when the Park Service cause the massive forest fire in Los Alamos?”
Oh yes. I remember. I am from Los Alamos. It and the surrounding country will never be as they were when I was growing up. For at least three or four generations.
Whoa, I see a stern reprimand letter going into some GS-4’s personnel file and a bonus reduction of at least 1%. Other high level EPA managers will be awarded double bonuses this year for a successful coverup and switching the blame to the states. Promotions may be in their future if they can get the MSM whores on line with “it ain’t nothing but colored water as certified by 98% of scientists .... it’s settled science”.
Probably some of Obama's sons from Jackson Park. We'll never know. Nobody will be fired. Nobody will held accountable. They'll just blame it on mining.
“How can there be a nation within a nation, with its own laws?”
That’s an interesting way you phrased that question, and it’s a good one. I suppose some would argue something about land set aside in treaties. But it is interesting that there is indeed a nation within a nation. Historically, it would seem that when a nation or culture has been defeated, it usually is forced to assimilate into the nation and culture of the victors or perish. For whatever reasons, these nations were and are allowed to remain. I think this concept of nations within nations and subcultures within cultures, as opposed to assimilating into what is the UNITED States, is currently one of the biggest issues we as a nation are facing that is destroying us. Salad bowl vs melting pot. The melting pot burns off the impurities and refines us into ONE nation (under God?). That salad bowl, of all these various prideful and different distinct cultures within our nation, is turning us into a bowl of rotting compost. IMHO
Forest Service. The folks who should have known better.
They might be able to but you and I are going to pay for it.
Darn Good Idea!
Careful what you wish for - EPA is in bed with the reservations up here, pumping up the Native's 'first rights' to water which extends well beyond the reservation to cover literally every drainage in the state.
Hmmm....... the world is a complex place
“There is nothing to worry about. It’s totally harmless. The EPA said so.”
EPA speak with forked tongue! Cadmium heap bad medicine!
“How can there be a nation within a nation, with its own laws?”
All one needs is a pen and a phone. Didn’t you get the memo?
How I LOATHE these people. Absolutely DETEST them! *SPIT*
Cerro Grande fire was a Park Service Control Burn.. I Googled it, I am old, don’t scare me that I am losing my mind :)
Does Vegas get its water supply from lake Powell?
D’oh! Lake Mead, not Powell.
It will be interesting to see how the endangered fish folks are going to handle this. The San Juan has a recovery program for the endangered ones that have resulted in multi-million dollar fish ladder projects that are deemed a success when ONE of the sqawfish or hump back chubs figures out the ladder. Meanwhile all the bass and catfish and other undesirables get trapped and thrown out on the bank to die just like the old timers did with the sqawfish and chubs which to this day are still considered trash fish by the locals.......Stay tuned.
Once upon a time the Evil Protection Agency had a plan that had worked. They asked for a contractor to bid and the fool trusted the EPA. The day arrived and they effectively applied the plug to the other mine. They then went to the upper gold mine. The foreman asked to have the rock removed from the entry of the mine. The day being over they left. The river that ran through the upper and lower mined continued to flow. Or something like that. Lake Powell is yellow in 3 days?
You're right, I apologize. Los Alamos is surrounded by the Santa Fe National Forest, and I'd forgotten that it was started as a controlled burn on the Bandelier National Monument. Still, they should have known better. The spring is the worst time for trying that here. High winds and low moisture. I've been in New Mexico since 2005, so it was before my time here, but I remember it happened, just forgot which agency and assumed because of the location and all the forest land.
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