Wow......had fished here in Durango. Mercury, Lead and Arsenic Just tragic.......

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/10/us/animas-river-toxic-spill-colorado/index.html

The pictures are nasty. This is a very bad deal...

Wow not good at all!!!! Glad I grow an cann my own veggies. Hope the residents are ok I would assume this would be death for fish? Well if all is safe at least it will be catch and release only big fish to be caught might have two heads lol.

Any word on what caused it woul be really sad if it was an error from an employee that was not properly trained. Dam to holding pond breaks or something I could see somewhat but other than that lot of serious problems for them as a group.

[font:Arial][/font]News is reporting mayflies are surviving and that is a good start... No worries, head Of EPA is in Durango today, all will be well now...

It was the EPA, they ruptured an abandoned gold mine while it was undergoing remediation. They are already blaming everyone but themselves, the original miners, the contract crew, etc. etc. If it was a private party you know they'd be bankrupt by the fines. Anyhow politics aside, they were trying to do the right thing, they just really screwed up. My understanding of heavy metals is they take generations to bio accumulate in foodchain where they start manifesting themselves in very ugly ways.

Here's an article giving a short history of the abandoned mines up there and the ongoing problem of cleaning them up

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/spill-sheds-light-on-legacy-of-abandoned-mines-out-west/

SO the EPA can fine us, who can fine the EPA?

The ruin so much they touch.