Orange water was flowing from a century-old gold mine in Utah. Hereâs who paid to clean it up.
The drainage evoked Gold King Mine Spill of 2015.
(Zak Podmore | The Salt Lake Tribune) In December 2020, a bat gate and concrete settling dam were installed at the entrance to the Marvin Tunnel gold mine by the U.S. Forest Service to protect Blanding s water supply. April 26, 2021.
  | May 5, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
Blanding ⢠In August, along a graded dirt road high in the Abajo Mountains of southeastern Utah, campers and hikers spotted a small stream of bright orange-red water.
It was flowing from a 100-year-old gold mine shaft known as the Marvin Tunnel toward the creek that supplies the city of Blanding, home to 3,500 people, with its municipal water.
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the Washington County Arkansas Road Department (“Department”) entered into an April.
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Salesville, Arkansas, (“Salesville”) entered into an April 22nd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations involving the Underground Injection Control (“UIC”) Code and Sanitary Sewer Overflow (“SSO”). See LIS No. 21-033.
The CAO provides that Salesville operates a decentralized wastewater treatment system with drip irrigation dispersal (“Facility”) in Baxter County, Arkansas.
DEQ is stated to have issued a state No-Discharge Permit (“Permit”) to Salesville in 2015. The Permit is stated to have become effective on September 1, 2015, and expired on August 31, 2020.
Salesville is stated to have been provided a request for a Corrective Action Plan (“CAP”) by DEQ to address permitted effluent discharge limitations and SSOs reported by the City in accordance with the Permit. The CAP is stated to have been required to cont
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Jason International, Inc. (“JII”) entered into an April 4th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of an air permit. See LIS No. 21-029.
The CAO provides that JII owns and operates a fiberglass whirlpool bath manufacturing facility (“Facility”) in North Little Rock, Arkansas.
The Facility operates pursuant to an air permit.
DEQ personnel are stated to have conducted a routine compliance inspection on August 17, 2020, of the Facility. The compliance inspection is stated to have covered the reporting period of August 1, 2018, through July 31, 2020.
The inspection is stated to have indicated that JII failed to submit timely compliance reports that were due on July 31, 2019, and January 30, 2020. Such alleged failure violated plant wide Condition 31 and plant wide Condition 31(q)(iv) of the air permit and Section 63.5910(b)(4) of 40 C.F.R. Pa