Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative
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Site Characterization
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| Location |
- Animas River, Colorado
- Boulder River, Montana
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| Partners |
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| Technology |
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| Contaminants |
Metals
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| Description |
The USGS is conducting an Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) Initiative
during fiscal years 1997 through 2002, to provide technical assistance
in support of Federal Land Management Agency actions to remediate
contamination associated with abandoned hard rock mining activities.
This initiative is part of a larger strategy by the U.S.
Department of the Interior and the U.S.
Department of Agriculture to coordinate activities for the cleanup
of federal lands affected by AML. The strategy employs a watershed
approach, in which contaminated sites are identified and remediated
based on their effect on the water and ecosystem quality of a targeted
watershed. The initiative has been implemented on a pilot scale
in two watersheds, the Boulder River basin in southwestern Montana
and the Upper Animas River basin in southwestern Colorado.
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| More Information |
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| Contact |
- Herbert Buxton, USGS, Toxic Substances Hydrology Program, West
Trenton, NJ,
- Paul von Guerard, USGS, Colorado District, Grand Junction, CO,
- David Nimick, USGS, Montana District, Helena, MT,
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| Publications |
- Buxton, H.T., Nimick, D.A., von Guerard, P., Church, S.E., Frazier,
A.G., Gray, J.R., Lipin, B.R., March, S.P., Woodward, D.F., Kimball,
B.A., Finger, S.E., Ischinger, L.S., Fordham, J.C., Power, M.S.,
Bunck, C.M., and Jones, J.W., 1997,
- A
Science-based, Watershed Strategy to Support Effective Remediation
of Abandoned Mine Lands, in Fourth International Conference
on Acid Rock Drainage (ICARD) May 30-June 6, 1997, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada.
- Kimball, B.A., 1997,
- Use
of tracer injections and synoptic sampling to measure metal loading
from acid mine drainage: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet
FS-245-96, 4 p.
- Kimball, B.A., Bencala, K.E., and Besser, J.M., 1999,
- Synthesis
of Watershed Characterization for Making Remediation Decisions:
U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018A,
p. 3-7.
- Nimick, D.A., and von Guerard, P., 1998,
- Science
for Watershed Decisions on Abandoned Mine Lands--Review of Preliminary
Results, Denver, Colorado, February 4-5, 1998: U.S. Geological
Survey Open-File Report 98-0297.
- Runkel, R.L., and Kimball, B.A., 2002,
- Evaluating
Remedial Alternatives for an Acid Mine Drainage Stream -- Application
of a Reactive Transport Model: Environmental Science and Technology
(ES0109794 ASAP PAPER).
- U.S. Geological Survey, 1999,
- The
USGS Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative, Protecting and Restoring the
Environment Near Abandoned Mine Lands:
- U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 095-99. U.S. Geological Survey,
2000,
- Interim
report on the scientific investigations in the Animas River watershed,
Colorado, to facilitate remediation decisions by the U.S. Bureau
of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service, March 29, 2000
Meeting, Denver, Colo.: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report
00-0245, 36 p.
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| Links |
USGS Acid Mine Drainage Remediation Projects
- Acidic Plume Remediation Monitoring,
Pinal Creek, AZ
- Evaluating How Downstream Tailings
Deposits Impact the Effectiveness of Remediation Plans, Upper Arkansas River,
Colorado
- Lake Coeur d'Alene Remediation
Assessment
- Summitville Mine and its Downstream
Effects
- Aquatic
Toxicology, Aquatic Physical Habitat, and Sediment Analysis in
Evaluating Land Mine Remediation Measures, Animas River, San
Juan County, Colorado
- Bear-Yuba
Watersheds Interagency Abandoned Mine Lands Project, Bear-Yuba
Watersheds, California
- Benthic
Macroinvertebrate Assessment of Abandoned Mine Lands Runoff and
the Development of Endpoints for the Determination of Ecological
Attainability in the Boulder River, Boulder River, Montana
- Effects
of Nutrients on the Formation of Acidic Mine Drainage
- Integration
of Geological and Ecological Indicators for Assessment of Impacts
on Stream and Riparian Resources, Boulder River, Montana,
and Upper Animas River, Colorado
- Remediating
Some of the World's Most Acidic Waters at the Iron Mountain Superfund
Site--A Tough Challenge for Scientists
- Restoration
of Stream Water Degraded by Acid Mine Drainage, Toby Creek
Mine Drainage Treatment Plant, Elk County, Pennsylvania
- Swatara Creek Basin, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
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