Colorado River, Painted Orange By the EPA
[From article]
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.”
http://freebeacon.com/issues/epa-dumps-one-million-gallons-of-wastewater-into-colorado-river/
EPA Dumps One Million Gallons of Wastewater Into Colorado River
BY: Blake Seitz
August 7, 2015 1:44 pm
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.”
http://freebeacon.com/issues/epa-dumps-one-million-gallons-of-wastewater-into-colorado-river/
EPA Dumps One Million Gallons of Wastewater Into Colorado River
BY: Blake Seitz
August 7, 2015 1:44 pm
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