Residents take to the water to celebrated the re-opening of the Animas River for recreational use with a flotilla of rafts, kayaks, inner tubes and other water craft on after mine waste leaked from closed gold mines dumping toxic sludge into the pristine river August 18, 2015 in Silverton, Colorado.
Residents take to the water to celebrated the re-opening of the Animas River for recreational use with a flotilla of rafts, kayaks, inner tubes and other water craft on after mine waste leaked from closed gold mines dumping toxic sludge into the pristine river August 18, 2015 in Silverton, Colorado.
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