EPA Dumps One Million Gallons of Wastewater Into Colorado River

[Wilikon]

The Environmental Protection Agency, the federal agency committed to protecting “human health and the environment,” jeopardized both Wednesday by accidentally releasing one million gallons of wastewater into Colorado’s Animas River.

EPA bureaucrats were using heavy machinery to nose around the Gold King Mine near Durango, Colorado, when they triggered the release of wastewater containing heavy metals like zinc, iron, and copper.

The Denver Post reported that residents of Durango “gathered along the Animas River to watch as the blue waters turned a thick, radiant orange and yellow just after 8 p.m., nearly 34 hours after the spill started.”

“The river looks pretty nasty,” Deputy Stephen Lowrance of the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office told the Post. “It doesn’t look like water; it just looks like sludge.”

The EPA was reportedly investigating small leaks of toxic chemicals into the river near the mine when they triggered the million-gallon leak of toxic chemicals into the river.


http://freebeacon.com/issues/epa-dumps-one-million-gallons-of-wastewater-into-colorado-river/



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Always trust the EPA.

[MakingMoneyHoney]

I'd like to say this is unbelievable, but it is not. Sure is disgusting though.

Man dies after river incident in Durango

"DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say a man who died after he was found face-down in the Animas River in Durango may have slipped and fell into the river.

Coroner Jann Smith says authorities do not know the man's name.

Boaters found the man unresponsive in the river on Thursday. Attempts to revive him were unsuccessful."

[Wilikon]

State Of Emergency Declared In Colorado Town …EPA Disaster Three Times Bigger Than Estimated

EPA boss shocked face

The Environmental Protection Agency said Sunday the amount of waste water that spilled from the Gold King Mine and turned the Animas River orange was three times its original estimate.

Shaun McGrath, administrator from the EPA Region 8 Office, said three million gallons of the toxic water laced with heavy metals spilled into Cement Creek last Wednesday. McGrath said the agency updated its initial estimate of one million gallons after checking a U.S.G.S. stream gauge on Cement Creek.

Sunday marked five days since an EPA team mistakenly released the waste water from the abandoned Gold King Mine in Silverton. The orange plume was still moving at about 500 feet per minute, thinning as it reached areas near Farmington, New Mexico.


http://www.9news.com/story/news/local/2015/08/09/state--emergency-durango-la-plata-county/31381113/

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[Wilikon]

 

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Its an environmental disasteroni, with toxic heavy metalsoni, and massive death of natureoni, and lots of people poisondoni, lets thank the Environmental Protection Agencioni for a move that is ironioni and completely boneheadedoni!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdeQZANLmH0

[Wilikon]

[TECSHARE]

LOL. It took me a second to see what you did there.

The funny thing is the EPA is busy dumping millions of gallons of toxic waste destroying local economies, water aquifers, and the environment itself, but we really should be worrying about this whole carbon dioxide thing! Jokes aside, this us utterly appalling. I feel bad for the local residents who will have no jobs and no drinking water as a result of this.

[Shattered]

Whoever is responsible for this tragedy should be immediately fired and have to pay at least 1% of the total clean up cost.
If they cant afford that, then they should immediately be issued a pool skimmer and start skimming.....

[tsoPANos]

Wow that's big news!
What a tragic irony! This is how the Environmental protection agency protects our nature!!!
It looks like they got overloaded with liquid yellowish toxic shit  

[TheButterZone]

Environment Polluting Assholes.

[TECSHARE]

In case you want to make your own https://i.imgur.com/krWMBdp.png

[username18333]

A more curious aspect of this situation is that readers believe that “three million gallons of the toxic water laced with heavy metals” (Brennan) could have been “released” (Brennan) so trivially as to have genuinely been so “mistakenly” (Brennan).

[Wilikon]

She said she is responsible... Does that mean she will quit? I doubt it...

Too bad reddit does not care.

[username18333]

She said she is responsible... Does that mean she will quit? I doubt it...

You believe her to be "responsible" (Wilikon) merely because "he said she is" (Wilikon)?

[Wilikon]

She said she is responsible... Does that mean she will quit? I doubt it...

You believe her to be "responsible" (Wilikon) merely because "he said she is" (Wilikon)‽

No. I believe no one (upper level) will lose their job over this destruction.

[username18333]

No. I believe no one (upper level) will lose their job over this destruction.

Do you suspect the "incident" to have been purposeful?

[TheButterZone]

No. I believe no one (upper level) will lose their job over this destruction.

Do you suspect the "incident" to have been purposeful?

It appears that whatever can be done to worsen California's drought relief, is being waged by our state and federal government.

[Wilikon]

No. I believe no one (upper level) will lose their job over this destruction.

Do you suspect the "incident" to have been purposeful?

Did I suspect the Deepwater Horizon oil spill "incident" in the golf of mexico was purposeful?

No. I did not. They paid for the clean up. $18.7 billion in fines...

Fossil fuel was created by mother nature. That yellow soup was created by man...

[username18333]

It appears that whatever can be done to worsen California's drought relief, is being waged by our state and federal government.

Does that "dig a hole" which demands, consistently, an uptick in either private, public, or both private and public sector expenditures?