Title
Silver Bow Creek Cleanup and Restoration
Abstract
The Silver Bow Creek watershed forms part of the headwaters the Clark Fork River. Decades of mining in the basin have damaged natural resources. These injuries include mild to severe contamination of water and soils and massive physical alterations to stream channels, floodplains, and surrounding landscapes, with resulting impacts to agriculture, wildlife, & recreational values.
Environmental cleanup under Superfund is being coordinated with a restoration effort directed by the Montana Natural Resource Damage program. Silver Bow Creek is presently under re-construction along mile 7 and at various sections near the end of the 22 mile Creek.
The tour will start at 10 am at the Rocker Town Pump on I-90 just west of Butte. We'll meet in the parking lot by the creek.
From there we will travel west about three miles to Ramsay and observe active tailings removal part. From there we will travel east to the first mile of SBC near Butte. We will make about 3 riparian stops on the 7 mile trip back to Butte. Then we will travel west and have lunch at the lower end of SBC (three miles south of Warm Springs Ponds) and observe and discuss cleanup activities at this location. We should be completed before 1pm with the SBC leg of the tour and then head on to the Watershed Restoration Council tour a few miles northeast of Warm Springs Ponds.
Tour led by Joel Chavez and Greg Mullen.
Start Date
31-3-2005 10:00 AM
End Date
31-3-2005 12:00 PM
Document Type
Tour
Silver Bow Creek Cleanup and Restoration
The Silver Bow Creek watershed forms part of the headwaters the Clark Fork River. Decades of mining in the basin have damaged natural resources. These injuries include mild to severe contamination of water and soils and massive physical alterations to stream channels, floodplains, and surrounding landscapes, with resulting impacts to agriculture, wildlife, & recreational values.
Environmental cleanup under Superfund is being coordinated with a restoration effort directed by the Montana Natural Resource Damage program. Silver Bow Creek is presently under re-construction along mile 7 and at various sections near the end of the 22 mile Creek.
The tour will start at 10 am at the Rocker Town Pump on I-90 just west of Butte. We'll meet in the parking lot by the creek.
From there we will travel west about three miles to Ramsay and observe active tailings removal part. From there we will travel east to the first mile of SBC near Butte. We will make about 3 riparian stops on the 7 mile trip back to Butte. Then we will travel west and have lunch at the lower end of SBC (three miles south of Warm Springs Ponds) and observe and discuss cleanup activities at this location. We should be completed before 1pm with the SBC leg of the tour and then head on to the Watershed Restoration Council tour a few miles northeast of Warm Springs Ponds.
Tour led by Joel Chavez and Greg Mullen.