Heavy Metals ~ Putting away Our Past
On 5 August 2015, 3 million tons of toxic waste was spilt into the Animas river. Iron, Lead, Zinc and Copper, deadly heavy metals, filled the water rapidly. Fish choked in the Arsenic, Beryllium and Cadmium. A terrible stench filled the air around the river, and just looking at the color of the water was enough to make your stomach turn. By the end of the first day, the polluted water had reached New Mexico. Who was the culprit? An atrocity so potent as this was surely the doing of some villain. Ironically, The Environmental Protection Agency was to blame. The Gold King Mine is a suspended mine; it hasn’t been used for centuries. Yet the EPA thought they would do some investigating to make sure the mine was ‘secure’. Yes, indeed, the mine was secure until the team began digging around to see just how secure it was. That’s when all hell broke loose and the sleeping monster was unleashed. It’s not totally clea...