"EPA Installs Barrier, Valve In Mine That Spilled Toxic Waste" and Much more...

EPA Installs Barrier, Valve In Mine That Spilled Toxic Waste: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is installing a barrier and valve inside an inactive Colorado mine to prevent another surge of toxic wastewater like a 2015 blowout that contaminated rivers in three states.
(Dan ELLIOTT, Associated Press/CBS Denver Channel 4 News; September 20, 2017)

Yet...

Gold King Mine:  EPA Refuses to Pay Spill Damages
(Alysa LANDRY, Indian Country Today; January 16, 2017)
https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/news/environment/gold-king-mine-epa-refuses-pay-spill-damages/


Selected Publications:


Understanding the Gold King Mine Spill 
(CHIEF et al., 2016)
https://www.superfund.arizona.edu/sites/superfund.arizona.edu/files/u70/understanding_the_gold_king_mine_spill_v13_preamble_final.pdf

Post Gold King Mine Spill Investigation of Metal Stability in Water and Sediments of the Animas River Watershed
(RODRIGUEZ-FREIRE et al., 2016)
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jose_Cerrato/publication/308900970_Post_Gold_King_Mine_Spill_Investigation_of_Metal_Stability_in_Water_and_Sediments_of_the_Animas_River_Watershed/links/5835f52308aec3fe331c4df8/Post-Gold-King-Mine-Spill-Investigation-of-Metal-Stability-in-Water-and-Sediments-of-the-Animas-River-Watershed.pdf


EPA Gold King Mine Research Study and Peer Review Report:


Analysis of the Transport and Fate of  Metals Released from the Gold King Mine in the Animas and San Juan Rivers (EPA/600/R-16/296; SULLIVAN et al., 2017)

Executive Summary (January 5, 2017):
https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_file_download.cfm?p_download_id=530075

EPA Gold King Mine Transport and Fate Study (Final Main Report; January 6, 2017):  
https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_file_download.cfm?p_download_id=530074


Peer Review of  EPA's Gold King Mine Analysis of Fate and Transport in the Animas and San Juan Rivers  (Contract No. EP-C-12-045, Task Order 80; CARUSO  et al., 2016)

Peer Review Summary Report (March 9, 2016)
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-07/documents/peer_review_of_epa_gkm_analysis_final.pdf



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