Months ago, CO town resisted allowing EPA tests that caused toxic disaster – IOTW Report

Months ago, CO town resisted allowing EPA tests that caused toxic disaster

ColoradoWatchdog.org:

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.

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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.

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18 Comments on Months ago, CO town resisted allowing EPA tests that caused toxic disaster

  1. 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!

  2. 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!!

  3. 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!

  4. 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.

  5. 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???”

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