Last Saturday's spillage of cyanide into Yaakyi, a tributary of River Subri...was as a result of the negligence of Newmont...the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has stated. Mr Isaac Osei, Brong Ahafo Regional Director of EPA, told the GNA that Newmont failed to effectively monitor the rate of water flow into their environmental control dams and so when one of the dams began to overflow the Company could not detect it...Mr Osei explained that the negative socio-economic impact of the spillage...was minimal because the affected area had few small hamlets and the people were the first to detect the spillage through the number of dead fish they saw floating in the Yaakyi stream, adding that Newmont was now supplying potable water to the affected communities.