Fascinating and frustrating, but it never answers the questions of why the EPA is interpreting the Clean Water Act in the way they are. I suspect it is not to cause problems like this, so what is the reasoning behind it?
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Cleanup of abandoned mines in Colorado stalled over lawsuit fears
Colorado officials say the risk of lawsuits prevents cleanup of this mine and thousands of other abandoned mines that have impaired 1,300 miles of Colorado streams and, according to federal estimates, the headwaters of 40 percent of Western rivers.At the Penn Mine over past year, state inspectors measured a boggling array of toxic metals discharged into Peru Creek. They counted 186 pounds of cadmium, 4,496 pounds of copper, 21,529 pounds of manganese, 21 pounds of lead and 39,896 pounds of zinc. These metals have left Peru Creek and much of the Snake River devoid of aquatic life.
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Risk of lawsuits preventing cleanup of abandoned mines in Colorado – The Denver Post
Colorado mining authorities have dug through a mountainside and reopened the dark granite shaft of an abandoned mine that turned deadly — trying to find options for dealing with one of the Wests wors…
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