Your Tax Dollars At Work Causing Disasters

This tells the story....

..."Silverton and San Juan County officials have resisted efforts to launch a full-scale federal "Superfund" cleanup to address this problem due to fears of a stigma that could hurt the tourism they count on for business.

"These are historic abandoned mines that have had acid drainage for decades. That is the very reason why we were up there," EPA regional chief McGrath said. "We were trying to reach that drainage coming off the Gold King Mine. They were trying to put in a treatment system.

"We have been in conversations with the town of Silverton ... and the state of Colorado about listing this area under superfund. And if it is listed then, of course, removal (of waste) is part of superfund that would allow us to take action up there. ... We have not been able to move this area to a listing under the Superfund.""

Did the EPA cause this, or were they just unable or ineffective to prevent it?

The EPA is overzealous about some things, but underzealous about others.

From the cited piece:

"For years, so-called "good Samaritan" environmental groups and landowners have pressed to embark on cooperative cleanups, only to be warned by the EPA that well-intentioned efforts at old mines that make matters worse could face federal prosecution with those at fault held liable for massive environmental damage.

Now the EPA itself has caused such a mishap."

It was actually lead by incompetency, Heads of the cabinet departments were put in, not because they were competent to lead separate nets such as the EPA, the reason was as a payback for supporting the elected official.

lead led

we're from the government, we're here to help

Colorado has many Superfund sites....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_Colorado

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund

Yeah if it had been one of us that did this, we would be under the jail right now! Nice how nothing is happening to them and nobody seems to be responsible for this.