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Water Pollution

Test fish removed from Animas River

Fingerlings taken to Denver for analysis

DATE: Aug 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Video: Gov. Hickenlooper’s public meeting

Gov. John Hickenlooper visited Durango on Tuesday morning to tour the Animas River after the Gold King Mine blowout. Afterward, he held a public meeting at Rotary Park. ...

DATE: Aug 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

State, federal officials clash over health of Animas River

EPA asks Hickenlooper to curb remarks about river’s health

DATE: Aug 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Hickenlooper: Threat lessens on Animas River

pH at pre-mine blowout levels

DATE: Aug 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

13 states ask federal judge to postpone new water rule

BISMARCK, N.D. – Thirteen states led by North Dakota asked a federal judge on Monday to delay a new rule that gives federal authorities jurisdiction over some state waters. North ...

DATE: Aug 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Navajo president plans lawsuit over mine blowout

Begaye: Warnings there, but no one did anything

DATE: Aug 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

EPA: Decision to reopen Animas River a week off

From well testing to enhanced ground response, healing the Animas River will be complex

DATE: Aug 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Guv ‘disappointed’ with EPA spill response

Hickenlooper plans Tuesday visit to Durango

DATE: Aug 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

EPA faces criticism, praise at Silverton meeting

Residents gather to hear latest about Gold King Mine blowout

DATE: Aug 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

No major species dieoffs from Animas River contamination a cause for optimism

If the pollution in the Animas River was a comet, the tail would be passing through the town of Durango now, said Aaron Kimple with Mountain Studies Institute. Like a comet, the 3...

DATE: Aug 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

3 million, not 1 million, gallons of contaminated water rushed from mine, EPA says

City, county declare state of local emergency

DATE: Aug 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Thousands of mines with toxic water under the West

DENVER – Beneath the western United States lie thousands of old mining tunnels filled with the same toxic stew that spilled into a Colorado river last week, turning it into a nauseating yell...

DATE: Aug 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

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