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121 <br />• 1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />• 13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />• 24 <br />25 <br />other toxic areas -- other toxic substances will <br />either travel over the around or underground and <br />eventually get to us. <br />That is a big fear, and my motivation <br />for being here this morning is fear. Whiles Mr. Gomez <br />is setting up the slide projector, when we heard that <br />Battle Mountain was coming in to start the gold mine <br />up again, we felt a sense of terror becausee of the <br />previous company that was there, Earth Scieences, <br />Incorporated. <br />In 1975 they were operating a cyanide <br />leach process gold mine. On April 6, 1975,. they had <br />a spill, which has been denied and just rec;ently in <br />the Rocky Mountain News was denied. <br />Approximately two weeks later the <br />game warden -- the Department of Wildlife officer -- <br />was up there collecting some of the dead fi~.sh, and <br />on that day the 16th, that very afternoon, the <br />second spill occurred. <br />It could not be denied. It was <br />a large spill. It contaminated the river. It killed <br />the fish, and the Department of Wildlife does not <br />even bother to restock our Rito Seco. It i.s not the <br />clean water that the State of Colorado requires. <br />Those are State waters, but it's <br />