Letter to Editor PREDICTED COLORADO EPA SPILL So EPA Could Secure Superfund Status

Gateway Pundit ^ | August 12, 2015 | Jim Hoft

[Hojczyk]

Last Wednesday, a small EPA-supervised work crew inspecting the Gold King mine accidentally knocked a hole in a waste pit, releasing at least three million gallons of acidic liquid laden with toxic heavy metals. (ABC)

This letter to editor, posted below, was published in The Silverton Standard and The Miner local newspaper, authored by a retired geologist, one week before EPA mine spill. The letter detailed verbatim, how EPA officials would foul up the Animas River on purpose in order to secure superfund money. It the Gold King mine was declared a superfund site it would essentially kill future development for the mining industry. The Obama EPA is vehemently opposed to mining and development

The EPA pushed for nearly 25 years, to apply its Superfund program to the Gold King mine. If a leak occurred the EPA would then receive superfund status. That is exactly what happened.

The EPA today admitted they misjudged the pressure in the gold mine before the spill – just as this editorial predicted.

The letter was included in their print edition on July 30, 2015. The spill occurred one week later.

[katykelly]

Found it .

[hal ogen]

Criminal leftists are common in the Fed system. These cretins should be in shackles in dank cells never to be seen again. What a bunch of malignancies on our country. I pray that Justice finds them all...and soon.

[wtd]

WTNH:

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, himself a former geologist, visited a contaminated stretch of river Tuesday and said he hopes a “silver lining” to the disaster will be a more aggressive state and federal effort to deal with mining’s “legacy of pollution” across the West.

[null and void]

It will have to wait until after work.

[Rodamala]

Am I the only one that wants to read the first part of the piece about the dual gage from Carbon Junction to Durango and the Farmington Branch?

[Oatka]

“can you cut off the top part. and put the date and publication on it?”

Here ya go:

Quote:EPA plan is really a ‘superfund blitzkrieg’ [July 30]
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/08/letter-to-editor-predicted-colorado-epa-spill-one-week-before-catastrophe-so-epa-could-secure-superfund-cash/

(The Silverton Standard and The Miner does not have a Letters to Ed page, so the above reference is to the Pundit site which printed the letter)

I came to Silverton this summer to enjoy a simple life with no TV and no politics, but unfortunately that has changed. Your EPA dilemma has caused my blood to boil.

Based on my 47 years of experience as a professional geologist, it appears to me that the EPA is setting your town and the area up for a possible Superfund blitzkrieg. In regards to your meeting with the EPA on June 23, Mr. Hestmark’s (EPA representative) statement “we don’t have an agenda” is either ignorant naivety or outright falsehood. I am certain Mr. Hestmark’s hydrologists have advised him what’s going to happen when the Red & Bonita portals and plugged and the “grand experiment” begins with unknown and foreseeable results and possible negative consequences.

Here’s the scenario that will occur based on my experience:
Following the plugging, the [unintelligible] water will be retained behind the bulkheads, accumulating at a rate of approximately 500 gallons per minute. As the water backs up, it will begin filling all connected mine workings and bedrock voids and fractures. As the water level inside the workings continue to rise, it will accumulate head pressure at a rate of 1 psi per each 2.31 feet of vertical rise. As the water continues to migrate through and fill interconnected workings, the pressure will increase. Eventually, without a doubt, the water will find a way out and will ex filtrate uncontrollably through connected abandoned shafts, drifts, raises, fractures and possibly from talus on the hillsides. Initially it will appear that the miracle fix is working. “hallelujah!”

But make no mistake, with seven to 120 days all of the 500 gpm flow will return to cement creek. Contamination may actually increase due to disturbance and flushing action withing the workings.

The “grand experiment” in my opinion will fail. And guess what Mr. Hestmark will say then? Gee, “Plan A” didn’t work so I guess we will have to build a treatment plant at a cost to taxpayers of $100 million to $500 million. Reading between the lines, I believe that has been the EPA’s plan all along. The proposed Red & Bonita plugging plan has been their way of getting a foot in the door to justify their hidden agenda for a treatment plant. After all, with a budget of $8.2 billion and 17,000 employees, the EPA needs new, big projects to feed the best and justify their existence. I would recommend that anyone who owns a home, property water well or spring in the cement creek drainage take water samples ASAP to protect themselves from ground water changes that maybe caused by the EPA plugging operation! God bless America. God bless Silverton, Colorado. And God protect us from the EPA.

Dave Taylor, Farmington

[Nachum]

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[jazusamo]

In my view Dave Taylor couldn’t be more correct.

Using basic hydraulics the water accumulating at approximately 500 gpm means approximately 720,000 gal per day accumulate. The head pressure accumulates at .434 PSI per foot or as he stated 1 PSI per each 2.31 feet.

Would be interesting to know how many days of accumulation there were. It means the EPA estimate of a 3 million gallon spill is probably bogus depending where the rupture took place and the millions and millions of gallons that could have accumulated.

Thanks for the pings and the thread.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Exactly

[BadgerHawk]

Just search “superfund” on the Standard & Miner site.

http://www.silvertonstandard.com/news.php?search=superfund&catNum=2

[Oatka]

Latest post there is from March and is a news item.

[Dedbone]

mark

[george76]

Perhaps 10 Million gallons ?

>> the EPA estimate of a 3 million gallon spill is probably bogus

[jazusamo]

It sure could be or a lot more but it’s any ones guess until that info is released and I’d bet they never release it.

[minnesota_bound]

#46 this guy called it including the 500 gallons per minute.

[montag813]

If true, this is a terrorist act.

[eartick]

I agree but who will put them in jail. The full weight and power of the FERAL Government is behind these acts.

IMO, We the Citizens are going to have to start taking care of these aholes. The court systems and our government is a waste of time.

[zeugma]

But since it's the US feral government, it's OK.

I've been using that word for a while now. It's a meme we need to make sure gets spread more widely.

[Carry_Okie]

Jail time.