The Bonita Peak repository October 2023. Photo credit DeAnne Gallegos
Silverton’s new gladiator pits? No, a close-up of the Bonita Peak repositor
The water treatment plant in Gladstone Aug 1, 2023.
The Environmental Protection Agency recently gave a brief update on the status of the repository for the Gold King mine waste, aka “sludge,” being produced and mitigated out in Gladstone ever since the Gold King Mine incident in 2015. So now we are just over eight years later, and the EPA is still harvesting and creating a dry-out area for the acid mine wastewater that has been coming out of the G…
