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Silverton Colo., at the mouth of the Upper Animas River, surrounded in the background by the headwaters of the Animas watershed where over 1,500 abandoned mines may be affecting downstream water and ecosystem quality.
Silverton Colo., at the mouth of the Upper Animas River, surrounded in the background by the headwaters of the Animas watershed where over 1,500 abandoned mines may be affecting downstream water and ecosystem quality.

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