EPA dinged for another wastewater spill in Colorado

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The Environmental Protection Agency is dealing with another spill at a mine cleanup site in Colorado, as 2,000 gallons of wastewater spilled into a creek supplying drinking water.

Officials from Crested Butte said the wastewater and gray-colored sediment spilled out of a holding pond at the Standard Mine near the town.

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