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Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald<br>Animal tyracks in the sediment from the Gold King mine blowout settled along the banks of the Animas River in Silverton below the confluence of Cement Creek Thursday.
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald<br>Sediment from the Gold King mine blowout settled between rocks along the banks of the Animas River in Silverton below the confluence of Cement Creek Thursday.
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald <br>Cement Creek water from the Gold King mine area flows into the Animas River in Silverton Thursday.
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald<br>Anthony Edwards, right, has a microphone attached to him for an interview by Associated Press’s Peter Banda inside Silverton town hall Thursday. Edwards was hire by the town and San Juan County Incident Command to handle press relations with media in the area after the Gold King mine contamination of the Animas River.
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald<br>Vistors to Silverton inside the Town;’s Visitor Center Thursday where many questions were asked about the implications of the Gold King mine blowout last week.
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald<br>Cement Creek water from the Gold King mine area flows into the Animas River in Silverton Thursday.
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald<br>Cement Creek water from the Gold King mine area flows into the Animas River in Silverton Thursday.
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald<br>Sediment from the Gold King mine blowout settled between rocks along the banks of the Animas River in Silverton below the confluence of Cement Creek Thursday.
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald<br>Brooke Newman, a Silverton resident walks her dog Axle across a footbridge over Cement Creek in town Thursday.
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald<br>What is known as “Yellow Boy” caked on and dried on the banks of the Animas River in Silverton below the confluence of Cement Creek.
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald<br>Beverly Rich, chairman of the San Juan Historical Society speaks about the implications of a EPA Superfund designation could have on the area.
