Five months before the Animas River toxic spill disaster, leaders from the tiny Colorado mining town of Silverton pleaded with EPA officials to not perform tests that would declare the area a Superfund site.
Yet the Environmental Protection Agency was intent on ferreting out “widespread soil contamination” from historic mines, even though the town was tested five years ago and no problems were found.
“The fact is that our mission is to protect human health and the environment and not to stick our heads in the sand and not look,” declared Steve Wharton, head of a Superfund response team. His comments were contained in a March 27 article that appeared in the local Silverton Standard newspaper.
On Aug. 5, an EPA crew breached a debris dam at the old Gold King Mine, and 3 million gallons of water containing lead and arsenic flowed into the Animas River. The poisons turned the water bright orange and have since flowed into Utah and New Mexico, creating an epic disaster affecting farmers, towns and the Navajo Nation, which rely on the water.
The crews had started to collect soil samples sometime after June 23.
One geologist thinks the EPA created the mess to give itself another Superfund site to work on.
The EPA did this on purpose.
I say we test the EPA for toxicity and then burn it down so it won’t be able to spread.
When the government screws up, they get more of the same to combat the issue. When you screw up, the government takes away everything you have. It’s an accumulating snowball rolling faster and faster to the deepest pits of hell. Thanks assholes!
Yep. More people to shoot in the face. Kidding, part of my new comedy routine.
I fuckin hate these people let’s get rid of them.
There’s a new Wing under constriction down here called “EPA”… it’s not as large as the one called “IRS.”
kill them all…they’re trying to kill us
construction, dammit. Oy!
Ah, but we got you asshole Americans. The EPA can’t be fined or nottin like that. They the government. Only EXXON and BP and things like that can be prosecuted and fined.
Relax everybody!
now, all that poison water is in Colorado and New Mexico (along with all the dead trouts I imagine.)
And the EPA says there is No Problem. (And why would they lie?)
So quit your whining!
I TRUST the Gov’t!!
EPA: Don’t you think this orange water is pretty?
No disaster here. Just another “teachable moment”.
The EPA says it isn’t harmful. Okay, if all those heavy metals in the water are okay what the hell do we need the EPA for.
The founders would flip if they knew we had established an EPA. A revolution fought for nothing.
An EPA-funded company of scoundrels knowingly and willingly polluted a river with yellow contaminants which will increase man made ‘Global Warming’ by a factor of ten! Every settled scientist supports the scientific claim that man made yellow rivers contribute immensely to man-made Globel Warming! This is truly a man-made disaster in the making! Now, within a specified and predictable time period, all the earthly ice will melt and B. Hussein Obama will be under water in his palatial vacation home in Kenya! EPA is a maverick outfit that needs to be investigated by and punished by the UN!
They just found a new use for the water give it to the Colorado Governor to drink! It complements the heavy metal already in his head!
Ted Cruz should promise in the next tv debate, by mentioning this mess, that if elected, he will SHUT DOWN THE EPA.
He would be in first place in the polls 2 days later, and lock in the nomination.
And what’s with those three idiots in their kayaks???
Did they get up one day and say “Hey, I got an idea! Let’s go kayaking in the that river that looks like liquified baby shit! Who’s with me???”