Leadville, Colorado Fears Billion Gallon Flood of Cancer and Pain
February 26, 2008 · Print This Article
Leadville, Colorado is a scary place to live in these days. It’s a high altitude town- the highest incorporated in the U.S. at over 10,000 feet- contaminated by decades of mining the slopes above and around. It was at one time the largest silver mine in the world and over the decades has been host to soldiers from the nearby Army base, famous writers and celebrities, and even gunslinger Doc Holiday.
Today it’s filled with a people fearful of the billion gallons of polluted water plugged up in a tunnel overlooking town that’s threatening to pop. If it blows the entire town will be awash in a watery stew of deadly chemicals, lead, mercury, and other heavy metals. Leadville’s 2,700 residents could find themselves knee deep in cancer and death.
Groovy Green says not to worry though, officials are all over this one:
Peter Soeth, a spokesman for the Bureau of Reclamation, which acquired the drainage tunnel in 1959, said there was no immediate threat to Leadville’s 2,700 residents.
Officials point out that a speaker system to broadcast evacuation notices has already been installed near a mobile home park that has 300 residents near the tunnel’s portal.
I’d feel so safe if I knew that and lived in Leadville. A speaker system. They have a speaker system. Great F.S.M.
Link [MSNBC] via Groovy Green
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“Leadville”!? That must be next to Mercuryton and Carcinopolis.
I lived an hour or so from a superfund site as a kid, but this sounds worse.