Eagle Mine work continues

By scott miller

EAGLE COUNTY — Environmental cleanup work continues at the Eagle Mine. But that didn’t stop phone calls to the Eagle River Watershed Council after the Eagle River was mentioned in a Sept. 12 news story about the Environmental Protection Agency and old mining sites around the West. That story, from the Associated Press, was titled, “In wake of Colorado spill, EPA suspends work at 10 mining sites.” The story was written in the wake of an Aug. 5 accident at the Gold King mine in southwestern Colorado. That spill, caused by crews working for the EPA, released 3 million gallons …

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