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Re: She’s Not Gonna Blow!

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Re: She’s Not Gonna Blow!

observ8 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:55:51 -0000

water flowing re how water flows:

Those of us on the Western Slope know well that water flows uphill toward money.

Re: She’s Not Gonna Blow!

neonnurse — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:55:00 -0000

I did a little looking around online Looks like they have started pumping Wednesday with a pump they had on hand. It's slow, and from the top end of a shaft that (they say) the water is okay in, but it should start taking pressure off overall.

There is a new heavy-duty pump being hustled into play which will move the contaminated water from an older (?) shaft to the treatment plant, hopefully within two weeks.

See, that's what's crazy. The treatment plant was already there! It was just that there are two government agencies saying, "You do it!" "No, YOU do it!" "It's YOUR job, not mine!" "Darers go first!" etc etc etc.

As to the TOXIC factor, I think there must be a strong probability that even if there is never a blowout, the poisons could indeed seep down and out until they got into the river and then into the water table.

Flowing downhill is what water does best.

Re: She’s Not Gonna Blow!

Bo — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:50:59 -0000

To pump or not to pump? This issue makes me wonder about a couple of things:

1) Isn't there a very strong possibility that this TOXIC water is seeping into the ground and contaminating the ground water of surrounding areas?

2) If/when they actually begin pumping out the toxic water, what are they going to do with it? Dump it in another mine shaft? Pay a treatment facility ungodly sums of money to clean it? Dump it further down stream?

Re: She’s Not Gonna Blow!

neonnurse — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:38:01 -0000

What I wonder... ...is why, since this has been a steadily worsening problem since 1995, it takes scare tactic media stunts to get something DONE about the situation to STOP it from turning into an ecological disaster.

Whether all that water "explodes" out or just overflows out, it's going to be bad for everyone and everything downstream.

I bet if that Weins guy was a Dem, we'd be pinning a medal on him and treating him to a ticker tape parade, for being such a super-duper friend of the environment.