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SILVERTON – An EPA assessment released last week found little risk to human health from mining sites in the Bonita Peak Mining District Superfund Site. But the agency’s human health risk assessment did raise concerns about two “dispersed campsites” on the upper Animas, along with mine waste piles in the Mineral Creek drainage that the agency says “may be used for camping.” The EPA said the assessment “verified the need for interim remedial action...