The toxic accident caused by the Environmental Protection Agency has washed all the way from Colorado to Utah.
The accident at Colorado's Gold King Mine sent 3 million gallons of highly toxic wastewater into the Animas River and beyond.
And while the bright mustard color has faded, the poisonous damage remains.
Some of the dangerous arsenic and lead has settled on the riverbed and can be kicked up at any moment.
Efforts to clean out irrigation ditches in Colorado
along the Animas river Thursday accidently released a plume of the
mustard-yellow muck.
Experts say the abandoned gold mine breached by the EPA will take many years and millions of dollars simply to manage.
They say the safest solution would be to install a
treatment plant that would indefinitely clean any water coming from that
mine.
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