The Animas wasn't orange for more than a few days. Lucky for me, as that
means the irrigation ditch got re-started after a week, and my BIL and I
could quit trying to water our 3 steers the hard way, by refilling the
water tank from the well, via a garden hose (a very slow process).
Depending which point on the Animas one cares to measure to, we're only
about 1.5 miles from it, and the ditch supplies our irrigation and stock
water, when things are operating normally.
What was the most interesting part of the whole thing was watching the
increasing level of hype proffered by the local (Albuquerque, 180 miles
distant) and national news, and aided and abetted by various local
governments, the state government, and that of the Navajo Nation. Without
being local, one would quite reasonably have wondered how many people were
going to be sickened or die.
That said, the Feds did little to ameliorate the escalation, as they mostly
communicated poorly, or not much at all.
Net result was that many folks were inconvenienced by having to wait for
the pulse of nasty water to make its way downstream, becoming more and more
dilute with every mile, especially after it passed just slightly downstream
of us here in Aztec, NM, where water from impoundments could be added to
further dilute it and speed the flow.
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 10:19 AM Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Oh, no! I didn't realize that's where the spill was.
>
> In any case you have two much better shots of the engine itself than
> anything I have. Where were you that you got that view?
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 9/13/2015 10:36 AM, Mike Lazzari wrote:
> >> It reminds me a little of riding the Durango to Silverton train...
> > Along the soon to be orange Animas River
> >
> > <http://www.interisland.net/watershed/mike/SW-trip/Durango_80002.JPG>
> > <http://www.interisland.net/watershed/mike/SW-trip/Durango_80005.JPG>
> >
> > M
> --
> _________________________________________________________________
> Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
> Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
> Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/
>
> --
---
Scott
--
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/
|
