Sheely said the event was started in the aftermath of the 2015 Gold King Mine Spill as a way of providing annual updates on how the disaster had impacted water quality in the Animas and San Juan ...

An angler fly-fishes on the Animas River in Durango in September 2021. Water samples from the Animas River showed a 90% decrease in phosphorous, 58% decrease in nitrogen and 67% decrease in E ...

Better than others Despite all this, the Animas is doing better than some of the other rivers in southwest Colorado, White said in part because it’s not dammed, and it is not the primary water ...

The EPA on Monday expanded its response to the Animas River mining disaster, delivering bottled water in Colorado, New Mexico and Navajo Country and testing for contaminants as far as Lake Powell.

The Animas River courses through the middle of Durango, provides a portion of its drinking and irrigation water, and over the last few decades has become the recreational and aesthetic ...

collapsed releasing millions of gallons of sediment-laden water that found its way into the Animas River, neither federal nor state officials in Colorado notified New Mexico of the incident.

EPA’s website points out that over 5.4 million gallons of acid mine runoff enters the Animas River daily. The way Churchwell tells it, water quality and numbers of fish had been declining in the ...

Erin Walter, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, said recent, steady rain has caused an uptick in the Animas River’s flow, which could cause some extra sediment in the water.

Instead of entering the mine and beginning the process of pumping and treating the contaminated water inside as planned, the team accidentally caused it to flow into the nearby Animas River.

For almost four decades, the Animas-La Plata water project has been a subject of congressionally funded studies, public debate, presidential cancellation, congressional debate, congressional action, ...

LAS ANIMAS - When Lawrence Sena became mayor of Las Animas three years ago, he admits he didn’t know much about water. The retired educator knew enough, however, to recognize that without it ...