The Animas River is turning orange, and residents are turning red after more than 3 million gallons of waste water spilled out of an abandoned gold mine, releasing high levels of heavy metals. Now in the fifth day after the spill began at the Gold King Mine in southern Colorado, the toxic sludge is flowing downstream at the rate of 500 gallons a minute, contaminating water supply and causing unknown harm to wildlife. On Sunday, the waste water crept south into New Mexico, and is now moving even further along into the San Juan river. To make matters worse, the Environmental Protection Agency is to blame for the spill. The EPA, the group who’s supposed to be preventing disasters, accidentally leaked the big and potentially hazardous mess last Wednesday while investigating the old abandoned mine. TheStreet’s Kurumi Fukushima reports in New York.
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