Nearly three months have passed since Peter Butler, the former chair of the Community Advisory Group for the Bonita Peak Mining District, announced he was stepping away from the role in a scathing fiv.
Peter Butler, a longtime authority on all things Animas River water quality, has had it with the Environmental Protection Agency.
The reigning expert on the impacts of mine waste in the watershed has .
SILVERTON – On any given summer day, Silverton is teeming with tourists eager to explore the vestiges of the town’s rustic mining history and access the peaks of the San Juan Mountains. They arrive by.
SILVERTON – The Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 8 administrator, KC Becker, visited Durango and Silverton last week to meet with stakeholders and visit one of the sites where the town of Silv.
The Environmental Protect Agency announced Thursday that it had awarded the town of Silverton an $800,000 Brownfields Multipurpose Grant to clean up contaminated areas in and around the popular touris.