{"id":23577,"date":"2015-10-20T14:58:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T18:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/?p=23577"},"modified":"2021-11-10T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T20:40:15","slug":"new-mexico-scientists-raced-toxic-animas-plume-gathered-valuable-baseline-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/new-mexico-scientists-raced-toxic-animas-plume-gathered-valuable-baseline-data.htm","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico Scientists Raced Toxic Animas Plume, Gathered Valuable Baseline Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As toxic waste from a long-shuttered gold mine made its way down the Animas River this past August, communities along the waterway shut off their irrigation operations ahead of the orange plume\u2019s arrival. The move was meant to protect public health, but had an unintended side effect: It gave scientists at New Mexico State University a truly rare opportunity to gather baseline data before the toxic plume got there.<\/p>\n<p>Their target areas were ditches along the New Mexico stretch of the river. They rushed to sample them not long after learning about the Gold King Mine spill near Silverton, Colorado. By getting there while irrigation was shut off, the scientists ensured that none of the data collected would reflect any infiltration by pollutants flowing in the river.<\/p>\n<p>Sampling began Aug. 7, just two days after the abandoned Gold King Mine had released its polluted waste into the river. And now, months after the accident, the researchers are surprised by a lack of funding to remediate the affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing I\u2019d like to emphasize is that although it has been nearly three months since the spill, no major federal assistance has been allocated,\u201d said April Ulery, professor of soil and environmental sciences at New Mexico State. She worked with Kevin Lombard, an associate professor of horticulture at the university, to gather the valuable baseline data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo major funding has come down the pipeline. I\u2019m personally invested in it as a scientist and a landowner, but funding wasn\u2019t thought of when we started,\u201d said Lombard. \u201cThat\u2019s probably not the best way to do science, but when you\u2019re faced with something you\u2019ve never seen before in your life, it\u2019s our obligation as community members.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23569\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/animas_ditch.jpg\" alt=\"New Mexico State University employees from the Agricultural Science Center at Farmington help to take soil samples in irrigation ditches while gates were closed. (Credit: Jane Moorman \/ New Mexico State University)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/animas_ditch.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/animas_ditch-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Mexico State University employees from the Agricultural Science Center at Farmington help to take soil samples in irrigation ditches while gates were closed. (Credit: Jane Moorman \/ New Mexico State University)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And so with that sense of fervor at their backs, the two led a sampling effort that raced against the clock to collect data on soil health in irrigation ditches before the plume passed their stretch of the river. A GPS receiver helped them tag the sites they worked in. From there, most of the actual sediment samples were gathered with stainless steel soil augers approved for use by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The efforts covered nearly 20 ditches on and off the Navajo Nation in northwestern New Mexico and scientists were able to gather somewhere between 200 and 300 samples. They are approaching analyzing them with the hypothesis that pollutant levels in the soil won\u2019t go up over time, something that they can only hope turns out to be true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to know the impacts of the contaminants to the farm fields. And those dry-ditch samples we retrieved pre-plume, we\u2019ll never be able to grab again,\u201d said Lombard. \u201cMany of us farm. Some of my staff raise livestock and so we had access to community ditches before any response teams could get there, including the (U.S.) EPA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ulery says that their work was part of a collaboration between state agencies including the New Mexico Cooperative Extension Service,  the New Mexico Environment Department, the New Mexico Department of Agriculture, and the New Mexico Office of State Engineers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big story for the New Mexico agricultural department was that the water cleared fairly quickly. That\u2019s why the order was given to open irrigation,\u201d said Ulery. \u201cBut that doesn\u2019t mean that the metals are gone. They\u2019ve just precipitated into the streambed and onto the river banks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Metals that passed through in the water, which Lombard likened to macaroni and cheese in color, included lead, iron, aluminum, arsenic, and copper. In the river, levels of these metals spiked with the plume\u2019s arrival and dropped as it passed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23570\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/animas_lombard.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Lombard, middle, looks over soil sample data from an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer with researchers from the Navajo Nation EPA and Texas Tech University. (Credit: Jane Moorman \/ New Mexico State University)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/animas_lombard.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/animas_lombard-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Lombard, middle, looks over soil sample data from an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer with researchers from the Navajo Nation EPA and Texas Tech University. (Credit: Jane Moorman \/ New Mexico State University)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lombard says that the closer you got toward the source, the higher the sediment levels in the river were. But once the plume had passed, there were still notable impacts left behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were seeing orange sediment along the river banks. And that\u2019s not to panic anybody, but we want folks to be concerned about public health and their livelihoods,\u201d said Lombard. \u201cWe\u2019ll make recommendations on remediation if it\u2019s needed at all, but there are still sediments that could wash into irrigated fields. That\u2019s why it\u2019s important to resample every year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But first the researchers will have to work through analyzing all of the samples they currently have. Preliminary analysis of the soil samples has been supported by emergency funding from the New Mexico State University Agricultural Experiment Station and a small grant from the Natural Resources Conservation Service of New Mexico. Future funding will be necessary to complete these analyses and accurately evaluate long-term impacts to the region.     <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no fast turnaround on getting either the water or the soil data. Kevin and colleagues did some portable samples, but we still need to acidify and digest them in the lab,\u201d said Ulery.<\/p>\n<p>She says that it is also daunting at the outset because of varying reporting practices between agencies regarding the metals that washed through the Animas River. For example, some reported both total metals (including dissolved as well as in the particulates in the water) while others didn\u2019t. \u201cWe were also answering basic questions about the difference between parts per million and parts per billion,\u201d said Ulery. \u201cThat confusion led to a lot of worry and concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It also underscored the rare nature of the type of disaster scientists were facing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFederal agencies don\u2019t usually cause accidents,\u201d said Lombard. \u201cIt\u2019s a great case study.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Top image:\u00a0The Animas River between Silverton and Durango in Colorado, within 24 hours of the 2015 Gold King Mine waste spill. 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