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Pub. Date
2012
Description
Electronic equipment like computer monitors, central processing units (CPUs), keyboards, mice, scanners, and cell phones contain a number of hazardous constituents such as lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, chromium and silver. Many of these constituents are found on the circuit boards or in the glass. Computers also contain a battery such as nickel-cadmium, lithium or sealed lead acid. These constituents are not a concern while the equipment is in...
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
On August 5, 2015, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA) work crew digging into the Gold King Mine (GKM) Level 7 adit near Gladstone, Colorado, triggered a blowout and on going discharge of impounded mine water. The EPA reported that more than 3 million gallons of acidic mine water containing sediment, heavy metals, and other chemicals discharged into Cement Creek, which flows into the Animas River, and into New Mexico where the Animas River...
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
The Kerber Creek watershed is tributary to San Luis Creek and part of the Rio Grande Closed Basin. The mainstem of Kerber Creek from its source to the confluence with San Luis Creek first appeared on the Colorado 1998 303(d) list for non-attainment of cadmium (total recoverable) and silver (total recoverable) standards for Segment 9a, and for non-attainment of dissolved cadmium, dissolved copper, and dissolved zinc in Segment 9b. Segment 9a was also...
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
The Colorado Cooperative Program for Environmental Health Assessments (CCPEHA) is conducting a preliminary health consultation for the Nelson Tunnel/Commodore Waste Rock site. The purpose of conducting this health consultation is to determine any significant physical and chemical threats that the site poses to human health (including threats from wastes that were transported off-site), and make recommendations for actions to protect public health....
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