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On Superfund and the Gold King, 9 years later

On Superfund and the Gold King, 9 years later

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Aug 06, 2024
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⛏️Mining Monitor ⛏️

It was nine years ago yesterday, while I was sitting in our Durango home, when a tweet from La Plata County popped up on my screen warning residents of an upstream spill of some sort. “I gotta see this,” I said to myself, running out to the old Silver Bullet and driving it to the 32nd Street Bridge. When I found the water to be its us…

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