The Upper Animas Watershed is home to hundreds of abandoned mines. One of these is the Gold King Mine, the site of an epic incident in 2015. Join us on this journey to learn about heavy metal spills, dead fish, and how a community got together to make things better...until they couldn’t.

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Here is a map that may come in handy as you wrap your head around where this all takes place!

And here some additional resources:

• Wastewater Spill in Colorado Turns a River Yellow- The New York Times
• GOLD KING MINE – WATERSHED FACT SHEET- EPA
• Wondering what is Acid Mine Drainage (AMD)? Here is EPA's AMD 101 to get you up to speed. 
• Animas river stakeholders group: An unlikely alliance for watershed health in the san juans- Water Education Colorado
• The roots of the Gold King Mine disaster run deeper than the river it polluted- The Colorado Sun
• 50M gallons of polluted water pours daily from US mine sites- Associated Press

Music credits:

"Pensamientos" by Saul Cosme *

"Dreamcatcher" by Jared Silbernagel*

*used with permission from artist