Tag: Mine Waste
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EPA settles with landowner over Gold King Mine disaster
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Environmental Protection Agency contractors caused a blowout at the Gold King Mine above Silverton in 2015, releasing 3 million gallons of acid mine waste and 800,000 pounds of heavy metals into Cement Creek and the Animas River. Nine years later, Todd Hennis — who…