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Guardian: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said it has no system for monitoring hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines that pock the American landscape, or knowing which one could be the source of the next big toxic spill.
“EPA does not maintain records of the number of mines or tailings dams in the US,” a spokesman for the federal agency told the Guardian. In the western US, the EPA estimates there may be 161,000 abandoned “hard rock” mines, where metals such as gold, silver and copper were......
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EPA Says It Doesn’t Monitor Abandoned Mines
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 21st, 2015
Posted in Water Conservation