{"id":103460,"date":"2017-09-20T11:49:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T17:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/epa-installs-barrier-valve-in-mine-that-spilled-toxic-waste\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T11:49:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T17:49:43","slug":"epa-installs-barrier-valve-in-mine-that-spilled-toxic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/epa-installs-barrier-valve-in-mine-that-spilled-toxic-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA installs barrier, valve in mine that spilled toxic waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1e8e4453-7b44-46ef-9f21-16e032521e20&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1e8e4453-7b44-46ef-9f21-16e032521e20&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1e8e4453-7b44-46ef-9f21-16e032521e20&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1e8e4453-7b44-46ef-9f21-16e032521e20&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Kayakers in the Animas River, which was colored from a mine waste spill, on Aug. 6, 2015.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Kayakers in the Animas River, which was colored from a mine waste spill, on Aug. 6, 2015.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/The Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DENVER \u2013 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is installing a barrier and valve inside an inactive Colorado mine to prevent another surge of toxic wastewater like a 2015 blowout that contaminated rivers in three states.<\/p>\n<p>The 12-inch valve will regulate wastewater pouring from the Gold King Mine in the San Juan Mountains of Southwest Colorado, where the EPA inadvertently triggered a wastewater spill while excavating at the mine entrance in August 2015.<\/p>\n<p>That spill released 3 million gallons of wastewater containing aluminum, iron and other heavy metals and instantly became a major embarrassment for the EPA. Rivers in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah were tainted.<\/p>\n<p>The EPA hasn\u2019t said how much the barrier will cost. The agency didn\u2019t immediately respond to a phone call and emails Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kayakers in the Animas River, which was colored from a mine waste spill, on Aug. 6, 2015.Jerry McBride\/The Durango Herald DENVER \u2013 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is installing a barrier and valve inside an inactive Colorado mine to prevent another surge of toxic wastewater like a 2015 blowout that contaminated rivers in three states. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,950,2461],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-103460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-durango","tag-gold-king-mine-spill"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103460"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=103460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}