Farms: Investigation Begins on 2015 Mine Spill in Colorado

On Monday, federal investigators said that they have opened a criminal probe into the 2015 spill of over three million gallons of toxic wastewater from a closed Colorado gold mine that was triggered by a contractor with the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA said in a statement that at the urging of congressional leaders, the EPA's Office of Inspector General is investigating the rupture from the Gold King Mine near the town of Silverton, Colorado, that infected waterways in three states as well as Native American lands. Last August, a contractor hired by the EPA to slow seepage from the old mine breached a tunnel wall, unleashing a torrent of wastewater that had backed up behind the mountainside. The orange-colored sludge, which contained nearly 1 million pounds of heavy metals, then poured into a creek that feeds the Animas and San Juan rivers and traversed into New Mexico, ultimately ending up in Utah's Lake Powell. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/domesticNews/~3/rr0_0MkGvJI/us-usa-mine-spill-idUSKCN10C39T http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com