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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Sep 24, 2015 - 02:22pm PT
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It didn't need to be designated a superfund site to do a small scale mitigation program that would have probably cost about a half million if done in the first place.
The resistance was to empire building.
And the empire building exercise backfired and created a disaster that the Navaho will be living with for a long time.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Sep 24, 2015 - 04:33pm PT
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Bullsh#t. The resistance was purely to the designation. Had it received that designation then things wouldn't have been done ad hoc and half-assed.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Sep 24, 2015 - 05:45pm PT
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It didn't require the designation for them to do what common sense dictated.
I guess government is your religion.
Couldn't possibly be their fault.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Sep 24, 2015 - 07:21pm PT
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Nothing's too good for the high priests of the environment,
Among the thousands of contracts for “household” and office furniture were a hexagonal table ($5,539), hickory chairs ($6,391), a “Galerie lounge chair” with “Galerie settee” ($2,641 for the set), and a pencil drawer ($813.57).
One of the contracts called for a “Herman Miller chair with adjustable arms, swivel, lumbar, caster and tilt,” costing $4,047. ,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/24/golden-hammer-epas-fondness-for-high-end-furniture/?page=all#pagebreak
Last year, internal emails surfaced from a regional EPA office asking employees to please stop defecating in the hallways.
Those emails followed reports that workers in an Alaska EPA office were caught watching porn at work and another employee at the Washington headquarters posed as a CIA agent.
Those reports prompted the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to scold EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and threatened to hold her in contempt for blocking their investigations into questionable activity.
In 2013, it was revealed that EPA contractors were using a massive warehouse for “secret man caves.”
That same year, a high-level EPA official admitted he stole nearly $900,000 from the government by pretending to work for the CIA in order to skip work for long stretches of time.
“It is not a shock that the same agency which failed to realize that their top paid employee was a no-show for years, even giving him performance bonuses while he didn’t work, is indulging in high-end office furniture. Apparently at the EPA, you need a $750 chair to hide the fact that no one is sitting in it,
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Sep 24, 2015 - 07:27pm PT
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All institutional chump change compared to the trillions squandered in the Mideast by W's crew; don't recall any ranting like this from you at the time...
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Sep 24, 2015 - 07:37pm PT
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Just keep worshiping your bureaucrats.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Sep 24, 2015 - 07:54pm PT
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hey there say, brandon- and all ... thanks for sharing all this...
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Sep 24, 2015 - 07:59pm PT
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I have heard that the locals in Silverton resisted a real Superfund clean-up and the current patch work is a result of the community leaders not wanting their tourism impacted...
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Dec 27, 2015 - 01:33pm PT
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[quote]When a private citizen or company violates rules, misrepresents facts or pollutes a river, government penalties are swift and severe. It’s different when the government lies or screws up.
Two weeks ago, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell testified before Congress on a toxic spill that federal and state agencies unleashed into western state rivers last August. Supervised by officials from the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety (DRMS), an Environmental Restoration (ER) company crew excavated tons of rock and debris that had blocked the portal (entrance or adit) to the Gold King Mine above Silverton, Colorado.
The uturn crew kept digging until the remaining blockage burst open, spilling 3,000,000 gallons of acidic water laden with iron, lead, cadmium, mercury, and other heavy metals. The toxic flood contaminated the Animas and San Juan Rivers, all the way to Lake Powell in Utah. The EPA then waited an entire day before notifying downstream mayors, health officials, families, kayakers, fishermen, farmers and ranchers that the water they were drinking, paddling in, or using for crops and livestock was contaminated.
Ms. Jewell told Congress she was unaware of anyone being fired, fined, or even demoted. In fact, federal investigations and reports didn’t hold anyone responsible for the disaster. (Maybe they even got bonuses.) Considering the spill’s severity, the gross incompetence of government officials, their advance knowledge of the dangers, and the way they downplayed and whitewashed their actions, this is intolerable.
See more at: http://www.cfact.org/2015/12/23/governments-gold-king-whitewash/#sthash.WD3Sf7r4.dpuf[/quote]
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 27, 2015 - 03:14pm PT
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This horrible disaster (and untold others just like it) would never have happened if the EPA didn't exist.
You are absolutely right apogee, things would be far worse. Burning rivers, poisoned wells, lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Let us find the idiots behind this mess and hit them with the max.
I suppose that I can still fish near Wahweap this spring, but then basta.
Good thing the Colorado doesn't reach the sea for the time being.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 28, 2015 - 02:56pm PT
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Because it goes to grow our food,....
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
SLO, Ca
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Dec 28, 2015 - 07:22pm PT
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EPA's contractor may have screwed up, but it never would have even had the chance had the past or current mine owners cleaned up their own mess instead of leaving a time bomb impoundment above the river for us taxpayers to clean up.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 31, 2015 - 04:27pm PT
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Sure, that'll happen.
BTW
the area draining into the river now has twice the normal snowpack.
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Aug 11, 2017 - 09:10am PT
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Pretty damn cool, they seem to be using cavitation to induce precipitation of the bulk of the metal contaminants then capture the remainder via some other undisclosed process (I'm guessing cation-anion exchange?). Thanks for posting that info up.
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