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More Than A Year After Spill, Colorado's Gold King Mine Named Superfund Site : The Two-Way : NPR
More Than A Year After Spill, Colorado's Gold King Mine Named Superfund Site : The Two-Way : NPR
More Than A Year After Spill, Colorado's Gold King Mine Named Superfund SiteEnlarge this image toggle caption Brennan Linsley/AP Brennan Linsley/APThirteen months after an Environmental Protection Agency mistake sent millions of gallons of bright orange wastewater into a Colorado river, the agency has declared the Gold King Mine and 47 other locations in the region Superfund sites, Colorado Public Radio reports."The Environmental Protection Agency accidentally spilled 3 million gallons of orange wastewater when studying the mine in August 2015.Many mines in the area drain thousands of gallons of water laced with heavy metals every day.
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EPA adds Gold King Mine to list of Superfund site
EPA adds Gold King Mine to list of Superfund site
Designation comes after months of negotiations with residents who were concerned declaring the site a Superfund would hurt tourismDiscolored water is pictured in the Animas River near its confluence with the San Juan River in Farmington on Aug. 8, a few days after the Gold King Mine spill.(Photo: Daily Times file photo)DENVER — A Colorado mine that spewed 3 million gallons of contaminated wastewater into rivers in three Western states was designated a Superfund site Wednesday, clearing the way for a multimillion-dollar federal cleanup.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency added the inactive Gold King Mine and 47 other nearby sites to the Superfund list.
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EPA names Gold King Mine a Superfund site
EPA names Gold King Mine a Superfund site
Federal regulators have designated the Gold King Mine, the source of a major waste spill in Colorado last year, a Superfund site.The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday listed Colorado's Bonita Peak Mining District, which includes the Gold King Mine, on its list of contaminated areas potentially due for federally-funded clean-up efforts.ADVERTISEMENTThe Bonita Peak District covers historic — and, the EPA says, continuously leaking — mining areas in the drainage basins of the Upper Animas River, Mineral Creek and Cement Creek.
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