HYDRO30022

• Permit No: M1980244
• IBM Index Class Name: Hydrology
• Doc Date: 4/18/2001
• Doc Name: FAX COVER
• From: ANGLOGOLD NORTH AMERICA
• To: MIKE LONG
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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. Metroa. THE GAZETTE SATURDAY, APRIL ta, 2001
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:: Poliutio~: Company blames storm runoff
From MElH01 tnental damage, although it. mines ran in the vicinity and years, but even the state Itas j
aide and zinc exceeded the might look like it at first that some of the substances rejected it."
.amount that is allowed by blush" are the result of residual run- That question is the heart
state permit. Under state law, the compa• otf from those mines during of the current litigation,
Ewigleben said they were ny is required to report the heavy rains and snowstorms. whlclr Ewigleben hopes to re-
caused by an unusually heavy, levels of pollutants .that are He said the company uses solve soon.
storm rurwfT in the spring of discharged illegally from the the Carleton tunnel for dis- "T~~ be honest, because it's
•' • 1998 and 1999 and were out of operations site. ~ charge, but that he doesn't all part of litigation that has
the ~~ompany's control. As for the other Sevels of need a pertnit for the been brought against us, and
'And the state already zinc and cyanide, which were Roosevelt Tunnel because it's that's what prompted the EPA
- knows about it because we detected in the RooseveltTun- not the company's- and now it's prompting the
~wet'e the ones who told them net, it's not the firm's doing be- But Roger Flyntt, attorney state. !'d like to see that issue
in our discharge monitoring cause it's not the company's for the Sierra Club, disagreed, go away;' he said. "That way
~' reports;' Ewigleben said. "We tunnel, Ewigleben contends. saying: "They've been trying we eau resolve the whole mat-
have committed no environ- He said turnof--the-century to make that argument for ter"
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