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Organizations, government entities receive county funds for summer research

Colorado’s mountains are pockmarked with orange tailings piles, adits, tunnels and rusted tramways, the remnants of a historic mining industry often blamed for fouling the state’s waterways.  But a recent study points the finger at...

Contamination not significant risk to humans, officials say

Presenters at a public meeting on Thursday about contamination on Lincoln Creek hosted by agencies that oversee water quality offered a lot of information, but few solutions yet to the problem. The meeting, held at...

An Environmental Protection Agency report shows worryingly high levels of metals in Lincoln Creek, a Roaring Fork River headwater tributary upstream of the Grizzly Reservoir, though not yet an immediate threat to human health. “Lincoln...

Polluted Lincoln Creek sections devoid of life

Public acquires crucial Colorado River water rights

The results of water quality testing on Lincoln Creek show that the waterway is toxic to fish and that metals concentrations have been increasing in recent years. But because the main source of the contamination...

I like to take my kids on vacation. There, I said it.

Agency releases report on polluted stream