Colorado Water
Here's an editorial from the Denver Post asking the Colorado Congressional delegation to pass legislation proposed by Senator Campbell that would allow the federal government to assume the liablility for mine cleanups on private land [August 29, 2004, "Laws hamper mine cleanups"]. From the editorial, "A half-million abandoned hard rock mines pollute some 16,000 miles, or 40 percent, of the West's waters. Colorado alone has 22,000 such sites oozing toxics into what should be pristine high-country creeks and rivers. The engineering know-how to clean up the mine waste certainly exists, but laws designed to make polluters pay for fixing their messes have, ironically, discouraged anyone from solving the problem."
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