Evolution of Mining: Site remediation efforts protect people and water By Tanya Ishikawa, Special to The Watch Silver and gold. Lead and zinc. Fortune seekers have been excavating the San Juan Mountains for 150 years to extract profitable, shiny minerals. The unintended consequences were the damaging release of acid rock mine drainage, carrying lead, zinc, … Read more
UWP project coordinator Agnieszka Przeszlowska, Jeff Litteral of the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety and UWP Board Member Dennis Murphy spent the weekend of March 18-19, 2017, sampling water and sediment at several locations along the Uncompahgre River. Our nonprofit is studying the effects of an annual release of water and sediment from … Read more
Check out a few articles about the benefit and the project that the raised funds will support. UWP nets donation from RIGS for work at Humboldt Mine site by Mary Menz, mary@ouraynews.com Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership received a $3,000 donation from RIGS Adventure Co., primary sponsor of the 2017 Fly Fishing Film Tour in Ridgway March … Read more
