Alamosa River, Colorado

Application to Copper and Zinc Problems in the Alamosa River, Colorado... 

Where acid drainage is well developed and extensive, the costs of remediation can be high. In the Summitville, Colorado district (USA), for example, efforts to limit the contamination of fertile irrigated farmlands in the nearby San Luis Valley and protect aquatic life in the Alamosa River will cost an estimated 100 million or more (Plumlee, 1994a). 

Green, C.H., The Solubility of Manganese and Coincident Release of Metals Based on the Reduction of Alamosa River Basin Soils, Colorado, Master s thesis, Colorado State University, 1992. 

Ball J. W., Runkel R. L., and Nordstrom D. K. (2003) Evaluating remedial alternatives for the Alamosa River and Wightman Fork, Summitville, Colorado application of a reactive-transport model to low- and high-flow synoptic studies. In Environ. Sci. Environ. Comput. (ed. P. Zanetti). EnviroComp Institute, Fremont, CA, vol. 2 (in press). 

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CDPHE. Use Attainability Assessment Alamosa River Watershed through 1996. Posey, H. H. Woodling, J. Campbell, A. and Pendletoit J. A. USEPS and Colorado WQCC, July 12,1996. 

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