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Lake County Commissioners have declared a local state of emergency around an old mine drainage tunnel that is trapping an estimated 1 billion gallons of contaminated water inside a mountain. A state lawmaker plans to send a letter to President George Bush and Gov. Bill Ritter (D-Colorado) asking them to take action. Commissioners worry slowly rising slots water levels inside a mountain in north Leadville, combined with its increasing pressure, could cause water to blow out from a drainage tunnel. Commissioners say an uncontrolled blowout could kill more than 100 Leadville residents and contaminate the Arkansas River from Leadville to the Mississippi River...

"This could be one of the biggest major environmental catastrophes that we've ever faced in the western part of the United States," said Sen. Tom Wiens (R-Castle Rock). Wiens' district covers Leadville. "We need immediate action by our state government and online slots our federal government to make sure we dewater that mine pool to take the pressure off of it," said Wiens who planned to send his letter late Wednesday night to Ritter and President Bush. "The government is absolutely, positively failing to do (its) job...It needs immediate action and we need to treat it as an emergency," said Wiens. "The federal government owns this and the federal government is not protecting the people of Colorado and the Arkansas River."

The Bureau of Reclamation, a federal agency under the Department of the Interior, owns the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel. The area manager of video slots the Bureau of Reclamation, Mike Collins, says safety of residents is his number one concern. He denies there is an immediate threat to residents living near the mine drainage tunnel. "I don't know if there has been any risk identified yet," Collins told 9Wants to Know in an interview on Feb. 11. "There is nothing that I would consider anything to be scared of." However, 9Wants to Know obtained a November 2007 letter from the EPA written to the Bureau of Reclamation.

EPA Regional Administrator Robert Robert wrote: "Due to the unknown condition of the tunnel blockages and the large volume of water behind the blockages, we are concerned that an uncontrolled, potentially-catastrophic release of water to the Arkansas River from the LMDT (Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel) is likely at some point. Not only endangering human online casino life (people living at the East Fork Trailer Park and BOR employees,) the sudden release of water, rock, sediment, and heavy metals to the Arkansas River would be an environmental disaster."

County Commissioner Olsen worries the build up of water in the mountain could reverse a more than $70 million Superfund site cleanup project undertaken by the EPA. The California Gulch Superfund site cleanup project started in 1983. EPA community involvement coordinator Jennifer Lane said the cleanup is about 75 percent complete. Olsen worries that clean up could be reversed if the buildup of water begins to seep into contaminated soil. In an area three miles from the drainage tunnel, Olsen said he's witnessed new seepage that previously didn't exist on the mountain side. He believes the water is being forced upward and outward by the intense pressure of water inside the mountain. The seepage hasn't yet appeared in contaminated area, which the EPA is working to cleanup, but Olsen fears it could happen any time.

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