Contents
Introduction: From Gold Medal to Gold Metal Waters | Brad T. Clark
1. A Tale of Two Places: The Upper and Lower Animas River Watersheds in Southwest Colorado | Brad T. Clark
2. The Gold King Mine Release: Impacts on Water Quality and Aquatic Life | Scott W. Roberts
3. A Potent Focusing Event: The Gold King Mine Spill and Rapid Policy Development | Brad T. Clark
4. From Deep Time to Deep Valleys: Hydrology and Ecology of the Animas River Drainage | Cynthia E. Dott, Gary L. Gianniny, and David A. Gonzales
5. Watershed Consciousness: The Animas River and a Sense of Place | Pete McCormick
6. Tourist Season | Lorraine L. Taylor and Keith D. Winchester
7. Contaminated Mines or Minds: The Psychological Reaction to the Animas River Spill | Brian L. Burke, Alane Brown, Betty Carter Dorr, and Megan C. Wrona
8. Social Impacts of the Gold King Mine Spill on the Animas–San Juan River Watershed Communities | Becky Clausen, Teresa Montoya, Karletta Chief, Steven Chischilly, Janene Yazzie, Jack Turner, Lisa Marie Jacobs, and Ashley Merchant
9. The Problems of Litigating Hardrock Mining | Michael A. Dichio
10. Divergent Perspectives on AMD Remediation in the Upper and Lower Animas Watersheds: Pre- and Post-Spill Policy Preferences | Brad T. Clark
Afterword: We All Live Downstream: From Gold Medal to Gold Metal Waters, Lessons from the Gold King Mine Spill | Andrew Gulliford
Contributors
Index