June 5,2008-- Dam seepage: Cause for alarm or not? (Leadville Herald Democrat)
The Environmental Protection Agency finished the pump test in the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel on Tuesday morning, but not before citizen Brad Littlepage noticed symptoms of a failing dam. The symptoms he noticed were cracks in the top of the dam and water seeping out from beneath the dam. The seeping water, he said, is very dirty water going into Little Evans Gulch, which has never been contaminated before.
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