Facilitator at CA Gulch

Meeting Design and Facilitation for California Gulch Community Advisory Group: California Gulch National Priorities List Site consists of about 18 square miles high in Colorado’s mountains in Lake County, Colorado. The site includes Leadville, the highest incorporated town in the United States. Mining, mineral processing and smelting activities in the area have produced gold, silver lead and zinc for more than 130 years. Added to the National Priorities List in 1983, the site cleanup is nearing completion. Recently, EPA determined that the remedy for one of the 12 operable units (OU), OU 6, is not sustainable and a new cleanup approach is necessary. The new remedy will entail consolidating and capping a number of mine waste piles, which EPA and the community had initially hoped to preserve for their historic appearance. Many in the community wish to preserve the historic appearance of the mining district with its many mine waste piles and historic mining structures. Unfortunately, these waste piles are the source of much of the metals-contaminated snowmelt and rain runoff that ultimately contaminates the headwaters of the Arkansas River.