Cleanup Work Set To Resume After Massive Colorado Mine Spill

DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it plans to return to the Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado this spring or early summer to resume preliminary cleanup work after it inadvertently triggered a 3-million-gallon spill of wastewater there in August.
Longer-term remediation at the site north of Silverton could be months or years away, even though local officials and Gov. John Hickenlooper have signed off on a Superfund cleanup.
The spill tainted rivers in Colorad