A home for the weary.
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We are furious with the EPA. We were contacted right away, and hundreds of people walked down to the river to watch that horrific sludge arrive in town, but did TPTB think that the water stopped flowing at the state line? For all I know, Aztec, Farmington, and the Navajo Nation found out about it from the national news. Very luckily, the next three towns, starting with mine, have secondary water sources, not nearly as good, but plenty if everyone will quit outside watering until the water is declared safe. Anyway, someone at the EPA should have been on the phone instantly to everyone they could reach along the river all the way to Lake Powell. Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye says he is considering suing the EPA over its inadequate response.silvercamaro wrote:I hope Sprots will weigh in on this, since her city was one of the first populated areas directly affected. What is the local reaction to what the EPA has done so far to alleviate the damage? Is the river still yellow in her area? Is tourism "done" for the rest of the summer or beyond?
Erin Brockovich wrote:The Buck Stops Here...
It just couldn't get any worse. Superfund Blitzkrieg ?!?
http://www.silvertonstandard.com/news.php?id=847
A letter to the editor of The Silverton Standard and The Miner by a retired geologist predicted the disastrous toxic spill in Colorado at the hands of the Environmental Protection Agency exactly one week prior to the accident. Taking it one step further, the author added that they will do this on purpose in order to secure more funding.
On July 30, 2015, Dave Taylor wrote to the editor warning that the EPA is planning a "Superfund biltzkrieg" for the Gold King mine in Silverton, Colorado. If the site were to be granted Superfund status as the EPA has long desired (25 years), they would be entitled to federal monies up-front for any cleanups. And that's exactly what Taylor suggested in his prophetic writing:
Based on my 47 years of experience as a professional geologist, it appears to me that the EPA is setting your town and the area up for a possible Superfund blitzkrieg.
Taylor then went on to explain in detail how millions of gallons of heavy-metal laden water would be released because of the buildup of too much pressure by the EPA plugging the mine. Under this scenario, the EPA would need instant funding to build a treatment plant for the clean up process. Taylor was dead-on.
Just a week after the letter was published, the EPA was onsite attempting to insert a pipe above the mine to help them pump out the toxic water from inside the plugged mind. Yet by admission, they misjudged the pressure and the plug was dislodged sending the yellow/orange sludge into the nearby river systems -- just as Taylor predicted.
I would like to add Dave Taylor to my Dead Pool.Bob Juch wrote:Erin Brockovich wrote:The Buck Stops Here...
It just couldn't get any worse. Superfund Blitzkrieg ?!?
http://www.silvertonstandard.com/news.php?id=847
A letter to the editor of The Silverton Standard and The Miner by a retired geologist predicted the disastrous toxic spill in Colorado at the hands of the Environmental Protection Agency exactly one week prior to the accident. Taking it one step further, the author added that they will do this on purpose in order to secure more funding.
On July 30, 2015, Dave Taylor wrote to the editor warning that the EPA is planning a "Superfund biltzkrieg" for the Gold King mine in Silverton, Colorado. If the site were to be granted Superfund status as the EPA has long desired (25 years), they would be entitled to federal monies up-front for any cleanups. And that's exactly what Taylor suggested in his prophetic writing:
Based on my 47 years of experience as a professional geologist, it appears to me that the EPA is setting your town and the area up for a possible Superfund blitzkrieg.
Taylor then went on to explain in detail how millions of gallons of heavy-metal laden water would be released because of the buildup of too much pressure by the EPA plugging the mine. Under this scenario, the EPA would need instant funding to build a treatment plant for the clean up process. Taylor was dead-on.
Just a week after the letter was published, the EPA was onsite attempting to insert a pipe above the mine to help them pump out the toxic water from inside the plugged mind. Yet by admission, they misjudged the pressure and the plug was dislodged sending the yellow/orange sludge into the nearby river systems -- just as Taylor predicted.
Somebody call?BackInTex wrote:I would like to add Dave Taylor to my Dead Pool.
Of course they weren't. They are a government agency. They cannot do anything wrong. Only greedy corporations. Environmental Restoration LLC of St. Louis is probably a subsidiary of Exxon or BP.Of course the EPA themselves weren't doing the work