More than two decades of intensive Federal, State, and local water quality monitoring to measure numerous parameters makes Clear Creek one of the best-characterized watersheds in USEPA Region 8. Many aspects of the watershed’s water-quality problems are detailed in the documents listed below.
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Bell, H.L., 1999, A Chemical, Physical and Biological Assessment of the Clear Creek Basin, Colorado1989-1997; prepared by Lockheed Martin Technology Services, EPA Region 8.
Camp Dresser & McKee Inc., 1990, Final Clear Creek Phase II Remedial Investigation; prepared for CDPHE/HMWMD in cooperation with EPA.
Camp Dresser & McKee Inc., 1991, Final Clear Creek Phase II Feasibility Study Report, Vol. 1; prepared for CDPHE/HMWMD in cooperation with EPA.
Clear Creek Consultants, Inc., 2004, Data Summary Report2003, Hoop Creek Water Quality Monitoring, US 40 Berthoud Pass; prepared in cooperation with JF Sato and Associates.
Clear Creek Consultants, Inc., 2005, Data Summary Report2004, Hoop Creek Water Quality Monitoring and Highway BMP Monitoring, US 40 Berthoud Pass; prepared in cooperation with JF Sato and Associates.
Clear Creek Ranger District, Arapaho/Roosevelt National Forest, 2002, Expanded Preliminary Assessment Report: Dibben’s Smelter Site.
Clear Creek Watershed Foundation (CCWF), CDPHE, EPA, 1997, State of the Watershed Report: Clear Creek 1997.
CCWF, 2000, Watershed Restoration Action Strategy Program, A Good Samaritan Action Plan.
CCWF, 2002, Clear Creek Watershed Status Report.
CCWF, 2004, Section 319 NPS Pollution Control Program Watershed Project Final Report: Clean- up of the Little Six No. 2.
Clear Creek Watershed Management Agreement Parties, 1994-2005, Clear Creek Watershed Management Agreement Annual Reports.
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE ) and US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 1997, Argo Water Treatment Plant, Idaho Springs, ColoradoCompliance Document
CDPHE, 2000, Classification and Numeric Standards, South Platte River Basin, Laramie River Basin, Republican River Basin, Smoky Hill River Basin: Regulation 38.
CDPHE and EPA, 2000, Argo Water Treatment Plant, Idaho Springs, ColoradoHistory and Overview (newsletter).
CDPHE/WQCD, 2002 and 2006, Total Maximum Daily Load Assessment: Clear Creek.
Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology (CDMG), 2002, Best Practices in Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation: the remediation of past mining activities.
Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW), 1991, Clear Creek BasinThe Effects of Mining on Water Quality and the Aquatic Ecosystem.
Golder Associates Inc., 2001, Clear Creek/Central City Superfund Site Repository Site Characterization Assessment.
Harvey, B., 2002, Chemistry of Sediments in a High-Gradient Mountain Stream Impacted by Mining as Related to Metal Transport and Aquatic Toxicity.
Herron, Jim, Jordet Jessica A., and Wildeman, Thomas R., 2001, Reclamation Feasibility Report Virginia Canyon; prepared for CDMG.
Herron, Jim, 2001, Section 319 NPS Pollution Control Program Watershed Project Final report St. Mary’s Project; prepared for CDMG.
Huyck, H.L.O., Steele, T.D., and Fliniau, Holly, 1999, Use of Long-Term Metals and Fauna Studies to Set Priorities for Mine Cleanup in the Clear Creek/Central City Superfund Site, Colorado.
Hydrosphere, 1997, Possible Approaches to Evaluating and Implementing Unlike Transactions, Orphan Sites Feasibility Study, Phase III, Task 3; prepared for The Conservation Fund.
Hydrosphere, 1997, Approaches to Evaluating and Implementing Transactions Involving Banking, Orphan Sites Feasibility Study, Phase III, Task 4; prepared for The Conservation Fund.
Hydrosphere, 2001, Adopting Orphan Sites for Credit: Expanding Watershed-Based Trades Through Unlike Trades; prepared for The Conservation Fund.
Judy, Susan of Mining & Environmental Services LLC, 2004, After-Action Report of Dibbens Mill and Sydney Tunnel Sites Reclamation Project.
Lewis, J.D. (CDPHE/HMWMD), 1995, North Clear Creek Surface Water Investigation: Preliminary Draft; prepared in cooperation with EPA.
Lewis, J.D. (CDPHE/HMWMD), 1999, North Clear Creek Supplemental Surface Water Investigation: Data Summary Report; prepared in cooperation with EPA.
Lewis, J.D. (CDPHE/HMWMD), 2000?, Mainstem Clear Creek Waste Rock and Tributary Sample and Analysis Plan for Clear Creek/Central City Superfund Site OU 4.
Lewis, J.D. (CDPHE/HMWMD), 2002, Virginia Canyon Ground Water Investigation, October 2001 Sampling Event; prepared in cooperation with EPA.
Lewis, J.D. (CDPHE/HMWMD), 2003, Burleigh Tunnel Remedial Investigation, Addendum to the Phase II RI/FS; prepared in cooperation with EPA.
Medine, A.J., 1996, Chemical, Physical and Biological Assessment of Clear Creek and Selected Tributaries in the Clear Creek Basin During Fall 1995: Final Report; Superfund Technical Assistance Response Team (START).
Medine, A.J., 2000, The Significance of Contaminated Sediments Within Sub-Drainages of the North Clear Creek Watershed to Water Quality Issues; prepared by Medine Environmental Engineering for CDPHE/HMWMD.
Phillips, Randal C., Sarea, Matt A., Streufert, Randall K. (Colorado Geological Survey), 1993, USFS- Abandoned Mine Land Inventory Project Summary Report, Clear Creek Ranger District.
Rocky Mountain Consultants, Inc., 2002, Clear Creek/Central City Superfund SiteOperable Unit 4: Final Data Review and Evaluation Report Remedial Investigation /Feasibility Study; prepared in cooperation with CDOH/HMWMD and EPA.
Steele, T.D., 2000, Trace-Metals Loadings in the Upper Clear Creek Watershed; published in the WAGLine Newsletter from the Upper Clear Creek Watershed Advisory Group, Winter 2000- 2001 Issues.
Steele, T.D., Huyck, H.L.O. and Fliniau, Holly, 1998, A Revisited Trace-Metals/Major-Cations Assessment, Upper Clear Creek Watershed, Colorado; presented at the AWRA Symposium.
Steele, T.D., Huyck, H.L.O. and Fliniau, Holly, 1996, A Preliminary Assessment of Areal Trace- Metals Concentrations in the Upper Clear Creek Watershed, Colorado; presented at the AWRA Symposium.
Szewczyk, Martin and Emerick, John Dr., 2002, Catalog of Stream Habitat Quality for Clear Creek and Tributaries.
TetraTech RMC, 2003, Clear Creek/Central City Superfund SiteOperable Unit 4: Draft Feasibility Study Report; prepared in cooperation with CDPHE/HMWMD and EPA.
TetraTech RMC, 2004, Clear Creek/Central City Superfund SiteOperable Unit 4: Final Feasibility Study Report; prepared in cooperation with CDPHE/HMWMD and EPA.
TetraTech RMC, 2004, Clear Creek/Central City Superfund SiteOperable Unit 4: Final Remedial Investigation Report; prepared in cooperation with CDPHE/HMWMD and EPA.
TDS Consulting Inc., 2000, Trace-Metals Loadings Assessment, Upper Clear Creek Watershed, 1994-2000 Data; prepared for the Upper Clear Creek Watershed Advisory Group.
TDS Consulting Inc., 2003, Upper Clear Creek Watershed Trace-Metals Data Assessment/2002 Addendum; prepared for CDPHE.
TDS Consulting Inc., 2004a, Upper Clear Creek Watershed Trace-Metals Data Assessment/2003 Addendum; prepared for CDPHE.
TDS Consulting Inc., 2004b, Upper Clear Creek Watershed Trace-Metals Data Assessment/2004 Addendum; prepared for CCWF.
TDS Consulting Inc., 2005, Gilson Gulch Characterization Study of Mining-Related Sources, Phase 1 ReportFinal Report.
TDS Consulting Inc., 2006a, Upper Clear Creek Watershed Trace-Metals Data Assessment/2005 Addendum; prepared for the Clear Creek Watershed Foundation.
TDS Consulting Inc., 2006b, Upper Clear Creek Watershed Plan, final revised version August 16.
Upper Clear Creek Technical Advisors, 2001, Upper Clear CreekWatershed Advisory Group Technical Final Report.
US Army Corps of Engineers, 2003, Chemical Data Quality Assessment Report for Soil Samples Obtained at North Fork of Clear Creek, Colorado.
US EPA, Region VIII, 1987, Clear Creek/Central City Site, Declaration for the Record of Decision, Decision Summary, Community Relations responsiveness Summary, Operable Unit No. One, Clear Creek and Gilpin Counties, Colorado.
US EPA, Region VIII, 1988, Record of Decision, Clear Creek/Central City Superfund Site, Clear Creek and Gilpin Counties, Colorado, Operable Unit No. Two, Tailings and Waste Rock Remediation.
US EPA, Region VIII and CDPHE, 1991, Record of Decision, Clear Creek/Central City Superfund Site, Operable Unit #3, Gilpin and Clear Creek Counties, Colorado.
US EPA, Region VIII, 2003, Action Memorandum to CCWF, Request for Removal (Response) Action at the Central City/Clear Creek National Priorities List Site in Clear Creek County and Gilpin County at Selected Mine Waste Piles Principally in the Russell Gulch and Virginia Canyon Drainages.
Washington Group International, 2002, Design Summary Report, Argo Tunnel Mill Site Reclamation Project; prepared for CDPHE/HMWMD.
Wildeman, Thomas Dr., Heflin, Nancy, Bazin, Abigail and Bednar, Anthony (Colorado School of Mines Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry), 2003, Final Report on the Characterization and Containment Assessment of Mine Waste Piles and Sediment Materials in Gilpin County, Colorado Including Site Descriptions, Leachate Characterization Charts, Physical, Chemical, and Overall Toxicity Rating Charts; prepared for CDPHE/HMWMD.
Woodling, J.D., Gassaway, M.S. and Dominguez, J.M., 1998, Clear Creek Biological Monitoring Program; prepared for CDOW.
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