{"id":110241,"date":"2015-08-17T01:30:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T07:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/gold-king-mine-continues-to-drain\/"},"modified":"2015-08-17T01:30:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T07:30:21","slug":"gold-king-mine-continues-to-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/gold-king-mine-continues-to-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold King mine continues to drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ea8d9e18-64f9-4b93-92ee-4bd67edcfd7c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ea8d9e18-64f9-4b93-92ee-4bd67edcfd7c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ea8d9e18-64f9-4b93-92ee-4bd67edcfd7c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ea8d9e18-64f9-4b93-92ee-4bd67edcfd7c&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=\"1600\" height=\"1156\" alt=\"Taking advantage of the reopening of the Animas River, Leslie Witt, 12, left, Chaz Johnson, 17, center, and Noah Freeman, 15, all of Boyd, Texas, kill some time before floating down the Animas River with Southwest Raft &amp; Jeep on Saturday at the 29th Street put-in.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Taking advantage of the reopening of the Animas River, Leslie Witt, 12, left, Chaz Johnson, 17, center, and Noah Freeman, 15, all of Boyd, Texas, kill some time before floating down the Animas River with Southwest Raft &amp; Jeep on Saturday at the 29th Street put-in.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Steve Lewis\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If that sounds like a lot, it is. Six hundred gallons times 60 minutes per hour times 24 hours per day comes out to 864,000 gallons each day.<\/p>\n<p>Construction began Thursday on another settling pond at the Gold King Mine, this one to allow crews to manage the sludges that have settled out the series of four ponds already built, the EPA said in response to a question from the Herald.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA commercial water-treatment system will be implemented on site as part of short-term actions for water treatment,\u201d the EPA said. \u201cPlanning is in place for a treatment solution that includes piping discharge to a lower mine site with a better location for water treatment to continue into the fall. Longer-term treatment needs and options are being evaluated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though La Plata County Sheriff Sean Smith opened the Animas River to recreation Friday, while issuing a health advisory, and the city of Durango began intaking water from the river for the first time since Aug. 6, a lot of locals aren\u2019t convinced.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico recovering<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, New Mexico announced private domestic well water use along the Animas River can resume based on tests by both the EPA and the state\u2019s Environment Department.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico also announced a plan to flush irrigation ditches for 12 hours before normal watering, and irrigation could begin later Saturday, the EPA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>advantage of the reopening of the Animas River, Leslie Witt, 12, left, Chaz Johnson, 17, center, and Noah Freeman, 15, all of Boyd, Texas, kill some time before floating down the Animas River with Southwest Raft &amp; Jeep on Saturday at the 29th Street put-in.Steve Lewis\/Durango Herald If that sounds like a lot, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[304],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-110241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-animas-river"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110241","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=110241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110241"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=110241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}