The Environmental Protection Agency has caused yet another spill at a mine cleanup site in Colorado. This time around about 2,000 gallons of wastewater spilled into a creek supplying drinking water. The Washington Examiner,
The spill happened mid-day on Tuesday, but the statement didn’t come until Thursday.
The Denver Post reported the EPA notified public works officials immediately after the spill but did not tell residents. The town’s mayor wasn’t told until Thursday and the EPA didn’t acknowledge the spill, despite the paper’s questioning for more than 24 hours, until Thursday.
A contractor was removing water from the holding pond at the site, which contained un-mineralized sediment from drilling and water from the lower mine. During that process, the vacuum removing clear water from the top of the pond dipped into the gray sediment…
The spill comes weeks after another EPA contractor spilled millions of gallons of contaminated water into the Animas River from the Gold King Mine in southwest Colorado.
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