Environmental Health - Toxic Substances Hydrology Program
The research team maintains several pages that provide additional information on the investigation.
Information on watershed contamination from hard rock mining studies from the Colorado Water Science Center.
Information on watershed contamination from hard rock mining studies from the Utah Water Science Center.
Information on studies of the diel cycling of trace metals in streams. USGS scientists and the colleagues have show that the concentrations of many ptrace elements (such as arsenic, cadmium, copper, manganese, zinc) in streams can vary over a large range (up to 500 percent) during a 24-hour period.
For more information please contact:
Watershed Contamination from Metal and Uranium Mining Investigation Home Page