Sign of the Times?

[Fred]

An 80-mile length of mustard-colored water -- laden with arsenic, lead, copper, aluminum and cadmium -- is working its way south toward New Mexico and Utah, following Wednesday's accidental release from the Gold King Mine, near Durango, when an EPA cleanup crew destabilized a dam of loose rock lodged in the mine.




http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/10/na ... tcmp=hpbt3

[Cortopassi]

Why you'd even consider putting a kayak into that I don't understand!

[sophie]

Not sure, but it must have been kind of tempting to row a kayak in a river of gold.

[Reub]

I rode the train from Durango to Silverton (where the spill began) once and it was simply breathtaking land. I hope it can recover.

[Pointedstick]

As much of the plume of toxic waste appears to be headed for Indian land, I expect that the federal government will do basically nothing to stop it, contain it, or clean it up.

[Cortopassi]

I finally watched a story on it this morning, and I was surprised (a bit) on how low key the reporting on it was, how it is already dissipating, and it just rained which helped, and making a big show of showing LIVE fish vs. any dead ones, etc.

I can imagine what this story would have been like if it was oil, or done by a corporation, accidentally...