Gold King Mine Citizens’ Advisory Committee Meets in Farmington on Monday

Group to Discuss Environmental Exposures and Health-Public Welcome 

Santa Fe – New Mexico’s Gold King Mine Spill Citizens’ Advisory Committee, based out of San Juan County, New Mexico, meets on Monday at 5:30 p.m. in the San Juan Community College Student Center’s SUNS Room which is accessible through the Henderson Find Arts Center.

Heidi Krapfl, bureau chief with the New Mexico Department of Health will present on environmental exposures, concentrations of contaminants in water, and potential human health outcomes.

The Citizens’ Advisory Committee (CAC) is a group of 11 citizen volunteers from Northern New Mexico, including the Navajo Nation, who provide a forum for public concerns while tracking the scientific long-term monitoring of the Gold King Mine spill’s effects in the state.  The CAC works with New Mexico’s Long Term Impact Review Team, established by Governor Susana Martinez to both monitor and discuss with the public the continuing effects of last summer’s mine blowout, caused by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, that released three million gallons of mining wastewater laden with 880,000 pounds of metals into the Animas and San Juan River systems.

For more information please visit the New Mexico Environment Department’s Gold King Mine website at https://www.env.nm.gov/riverwatersafety/ or email the Environment Department at NMENV-Outreach@state.nm.us 

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