Experts see long-term calamity from Colorado mine spill

Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - 16:20 in Earth & Climate

The toxic waste gushing from a Colorado mine and threatening downstream water supplies in at least three states will continue to be dangerous whenever contaminated sediments get stirred up from the river bottom, authorities said Wednesday, suggesting that there's no easy fix to what could be a long-term calamity.

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