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Subject 1: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Running water ambi. Timecode In: 00:00:04. Timecode out: 00:33:13. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Alan Miller. Timecode In: 00:33:14. Timecode out: 00:53:46. Notes: Summitville Mine; Water quality. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Hays Griswold. Timecode In: 00:59:42. Timecode out: 01:25:00. Notes: Summitville Mine; EPA Superfund site. Subject 4: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Mine adit ambi. Timecode In: 01:31:09. Timecode out: 01:35:44. Subject 5: (Interview). Subtitle: Hays Griswold. Timecode In: 01:36:28. Timecode out: 01:38:50. Notes: Summitville Mine; EPA Superfund site. Habitat: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Waste Site; Waste Site; Waste Site; Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Spaced Omni Stereo recoded with B&K 4006 Omni mics; XY Stereo, Neumann RSM 190; Split track, Neumann KMR 81; Stereo, Neumann KMR 81. ¬New Mexico DAT #2 ALAN MILLER... ABSOLUTE TIME 00:34:20 **34:56 SUMMITVILLE MINE ....threatening to way of life. land water quality. 36:01 Is this kind of disaster surprising. yes, very. water quality never an issue before How important is Alamosa river. Reaction after mine was known. Anger. fear. What are we putting on our soils. I remember thinking we could use jobs from mine. Didn't happen that way. no monies into this community. big disappointment. then when heard not taking care of mine. ***39:15--42:29 What affects... Acidity first noticed. That and fish kill. Fish all of a sudden died. went to shut ditch off and pool of water was full of fish that were . the next year noticed irrigation materials starting to deteriorate. next year new stuff we put in was rusting too fast. We didnt put two and two together right away. And the following year there weren't any fish. Copper and zinc are naturally occurring but we dont know what happens when you start over fertilizing. 44:14 How do people feel now. I've never been political. I think we need to start look at changing the rules. Change the 1872 mining law. Water here comes off Alamosa. You didnt think these kinds of things would happen here.... ****48:44 --49:07 If you've ever been up to Summitville you see how pretty it is up there and you ask how can anybody with a conscience do this to a river to a habitat and to the people that live down here. How can they have the conscience to do this? AT THE MINE. ***1:31:25-1:33:45-ADIT AMB. ***1:34:55-1:35:53 ...SLOSHING THROUGH. GRISWOLD AT ADIT ... We're standing in front of adit.. Water is green why. saturated with copper. Poisonous ...especially to aquatic life... 600 times more copper than they can stand. Can you treat it...yes. we're treating part of it. cant treat all because of capacity of treatment plant... treating about 30%. other 70% goes to creek. What would happen if I took a sip? wouldn't like it. HAYS GRISWOLD ... On seen coordinator. Where are we standing...old gold recovery plant. used to recover gold from heap leach. we've converted to destruction of cyanide and metals reduction. 1:01:16 What went wrong. Water balance, design of heap leach bed, nature of the rock. i.e. The rock up here contains sulphur, comes into contact with water and 02 it generates acid and leaches metals...mainly copper gets into water and runs off the site. Copper is very toxic to aquatic life. comes off in hundreds of parts per million. 1:03:14 Worst possible scenario.. Yes, for a mine ...about the worst you could think off. Getting worse every day .. most of the rock around the site has only been here six years and it generates more and more acid as it is exposed. Didn't people know this would happen some did and wouldnt mine here. What Galactic was thinking I coulndt tell you. Not sure what they had in mind. 1:04:35 Lessons learned. factor in natu... (Notes truncated)
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- 20 Jul 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 20 Jul 2005 - Ben Brotman