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Saturday, August 08, 2015

Toxic sludge turns river in Colorado orange

DURANGO, Colo. -- You can forgive folks in southern Colorado who might have a jaundiced view of government projects after what happened this week.

Crews working for the Environmental Protection Agency were trying to clean up an old mine. But they accidentally sent a million gallons of toxic sludge into the Animas River.

The images from the ground and from the sky of an orange river have Durango residents like Joe Genualdi worried.

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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 8, 2015 at 10:08 AM

    I am very familiar with this river and this is a sad event!

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  2. AnonymousAugust 8, 2015 at 10:13 AM

    they are from the government and they are there to help! anyone for a self-licking ice cream cone?

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  3. AnonymousAugust 8, 2015 at 10:17 AM

    so much for the value of the epa. maybe they do these things on purpose... a hidden agenda.

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  4. AnonymousAugust 8, 2015 at 11:16 AM

    leave it to the EPA

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  5. AnonymousAugust 8, 2015 at 12:15 PM

    No fishing for 20 years...

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  6. AnonymousAugust 8, 2015 at 7:33 PM

    I thought the P stood for "Protection"?!

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  7. AnonymousAugust 8, 2015 at 9:42 PM

    Now the confusion starts. Who do they fine for this?

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  8. SteveAugust 9, 2015 at 12:44 AM

    They need to use all the fines collected from others to pay for an immediate cleanup, not just the "oh, just let the river dilute and flush it" BS!

    If it were one of us, silt booms, scrubbers, filters and 59 hazmat crews would have to be in operation or daily fines would be being charged.

    Time to take some of their own medicine!

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  9. AnonymousAugust 9, 2015 at 3:18 PM

    Who fines the EPA?

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