Donations to the Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership during this Telluride Gives Day on Tuesday, Dec. 15 will be more impactful than ever, as 2016 promises to be a significant year for initiating projects to address local river health. With the national attention garnered by the Gold King Mine spill into the Animas River and subsequent community … Read more
Introducing UWP’s New Communications Coordinator Happy autumn! It’s a colorful season of change as I begin contributing to the Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership’s work on protecting and restoring the Uncompahgre River and its tributaries. My first couple weeks as UWP’s new communications coordinator have been pretty busy. Just as I started in … Read more
“The Gold King Mine spill is very unfortunate. But it is also bringing public awareness to the magnitude of water quality problems associated with abandoned mines in our region and highlights the need for more remediation,” said Przeszlowska. “The Uncompahgre River headwaters are defined by the same highly mineralized Silverton Caldera as the Animas watershed and numerous abandoned mines also exist in the Uncompahgre … Read more
