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   From: eljones@heavy.com   
      
   A spill that sent toxic water seeping from an abandoned Colorado   
   gold mine and turned a river orange is three times as large as   
   first thought, the Environmental Protection Agency said.   
      
   The EPA said Sunday that 3 million gallons of wastewater had   
   spilled from the mine, and the sludge was still flowing. The EPA   
   said that health risks to humans and aquatic life were not yet   
   clear.   
      
   On Wednesday, an EPA-supervised cleanup crew accidentally   
   breached a debris dam that had formed inside the Gold King Mine,   
   shuttered since 1923, sending a yellow-orange sludge leaking   
   into the Animas River.   
      
   Water collected downstream showed higher than normal levels of   
   arsenic, lead and other metals. In Durango, Colorado, the mayor   
   assured people the water was safe to drink because the city shut   
   off its intake valve from the Animas.   
      
   Still, "The river for us is an integral part of our community,"   
   state Sen. Ellen Roberts, who represents Durango, told MSNBC on   
   Monday. "It's where people get married. People do their own   
   private ceremonies along there. It's our daily life."   
      
   The discolored water reached New Mexico and by late Sunday was   
   headed for Utah. Authorities there were planning to shut two   
   wells that serve the town of Montezuma Creek. A tank of   
   residential water in Halchita, Utah, was filled with water   
   shipped from Arizona.   
      
   http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/colorado-mine-spill-toxic-   
   wastewater-leak-far-exceeds-first-estimates-n407091   
      
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