UWP CommunicationsHappy Fall Colors! Students are back in school. Temperatures are dropping. Plants are preparing for winter. Water flows have decreased dramatically. At the Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership (UWP), we are finishing up some mine remediation and water sampling projects, after a busy summer that included the Ridgway RiverFest and the San Juan Mining & Reclamation Conference. … Read more
The Dallas Creek Water Company, which provides domestic water to residents and commercial users on Log Hill Mesa above Ridgway, completed its first Water Source Protection Plan in August. Funded through a $5,000 Development and Implementation Grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the plan was developed through several meetings of local stakeholders … Read more
SAN JUAN MINING & RECLAMATION CONFERENCE WILL BE AUG. 4 Special to the Mirror DURANGO–Ouray Silver Mines Chief Op-erating Officer Brian Briggs and environ-mental consultant Briana Greer will pre-sent a miner’s approach to environmental stewardship at the San Juan Mining & Reclamation Conference in Durango, Colo. on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016. Briggs and Greer will … Read more
