Colo. Mine Spill Worse Than Thought

By Susan Montoya Bryan And Ellen Knickmeyer Associated Press - Aug 11, 2015

Albuquerque, n.m. — Farmers, towns and tribes slammed water-intake gates shut as a sludge-laden plume from a Colorado mine spill rolled down principal rivers in the desert Southwest on Monday, prompting local officials and families to demand answers about possible long-term threats from heavy metals borne along by the spill. Colorado and New Mexico declared stretches of the Animas and San Juan rivers to be disaster areas as the...