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Tag: Animas River
Readers’ views: Should the EPA be blamed in the Animas River...
When The Colorado Independent asked our readers if the Animas River spill should be blamed on the EPA in response to Nancy Lofholm's story...
Bad Water: Locals blame Animas River disaster on the “Environmental Pollution...
The alarming French's mustard color of southwest Colorado's Animas River is now running somewhere between orange Kool-Aid and the yellowish hue of Mountain Dew....
Homebrew: EPA slow to clean up its own mess in Animas...
Not-so-mellow yellow
The EPA accidentally released 3-million-plus gallons of polluted water from the Gold King Mine near Silverton last week. Waste flowing downstream reached the confluence of...
Thar’s gold in them thar Silverton hills; lead, zinc and a...
In 2001 when Aaron Brill was gearing up to open his extreme skiing mecca of Silverton Mountain, gold was selling for $250 an ounce and the upper Animas River was meeting U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) aquatic life standards. Now gold is pushing $2,000 an ounce and three of four trout species no longer can live in the upper Animas because of acid drainage from abandoned gold mines north of Silverton.