Comment: I do not pretend to understand the detailed conflict between the Springs and Pueblo.  I appreciate your post that describes a long running problem.  What I do understand is that the EPA is broken and untrustworthy.  It has never had as much money as it receives presently.  What it lacks is accountability (no one was sanctioned or fired for the Gold King Mine fiasco) and competent leadership.  Scott Pruitt is taking over an entrenched bureaucracy of political hacks.  The EPA may be right on this issue, but I don't trust them.