Kraus said some people now refuse to drink the water. because we were uncertain how much or what was going to come down from the lake into the river."Ī aerial view shows the damage caused by a tailings pond breach near the town of Likely the day after the spill. "We had people camped down in our lower lot and we were told to wake them up. "We were woken up in the middle of the night," said Kraus, who lives on riverfront property just downstream from the mine site. One of the panel's geotechnical engineers described the location and design of the pond as loading a gun and pulling the trigger. Mount Polley: Mines minister accepts scathing report but won't resign.
mining code strengthened to prevent disasters like Mount Polley 4, 2014.Īn independent, government-ordered panel of experts concluded the cause was an inadequately designed dam at the Imperial Metals open pit copper and gold mine that didn't account for drainage and erosion failures beneath the pond. Twenty-four million cubic metres of mine waste and water gushed into nearby lakes and rivers on Aug. Lisa Kraus says it's been a difficult two years in the tiny central British Columbia community of Likely, where the collapse of a massive tailings dam at the Mount Polley mine opened wounds that have yet to heal.
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