Gold King Mine still leaking one year after spill

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By Katie HerzogAug 5, 2016, 2:32 pm171 pts
One year ago, Environmental Protection Agency contractors inadvertently leached wastewater from an abandoned gold mine into the Colorado’s Animas River — turning it a lovely shade of brown. It caused a shutdown of the popular recreational river for eight days and flowed as far as Lake Powell, which…

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