Projects use creative techniques to mitigate mine pollution by Tori Sheets tori@ouraynews.com Sneffels Creek will run more clearly after completion of a bank stabilization project designed to divert the creek away from mine tailings at the abandoned Atlas Mill. The mill is just east of the Ouray Silver Mine, formerly the Revenue Mine, and its tailings are laden … Read more
Register NOW for the 2016 San Juan Mining & Reclamation Conference in Durango and Silverton on Aug. 3-5. Come for one day or two or the whole event! Go to http://www.mountainstudies.org/sjmrc/ Download the 2016 SJMRC Poster, share and post, please. The registration deadline is July 20, but late registrations will be taken until July 26.
Eric Jacobson, vice president of engineering of Hydrowest, informed the Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership and other river-related agencies in the watershed about a planned gate opening at the Ouray hydropower dam on Wednesday, April 13 at 7 p.m. Jacobson explained that the annual dam opening to reduce sediment buildup (also called pond sluicing) is happening early … Read more
