Re: Chama's Municipal Drinking Water Treatment Plant Failed

Greg Scholl Wrote:
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> course my brother and I used to drink out of the
> animas river and streams around the former AH
> Wilderness ranch back in the 60's. Somewhere on
> this board I red there was a ton of iron in the
> water from all the mine runoffs along the
> Animas!!! I guess the old adage applies---Just
> because it looks good doesn't mean its good for
> you!!

Iron, not so much a problem (the house I grew up in had red tap water from time to time, builds strong bones) some of the other stuff, big problems.

Once upon a time there was a Federal program of low-cost loans & grants for small towns to improve their water & septic plants. ISTR Gunnison getting money this way when I lived there in the early 1980's and around the time I moved here (1986) Cheney barely got in under the wire to get funds to improve & expand their sewer plant. I won't make any political comment as to why the program went away except that I still consider it a "Penny Wise, Pound Foolish" decision.

hank