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be followed up by a matched spring high-flow sampling program in 2003. <br /> Results will be used to determine suitable engineering design for the control of <br /> the contaminant sources. In addition to the funding award, NRM students will <br /> have designed, implemented, and documented the project from its onset to its <br /> completion. <br /> Private Property Timber-thinning and Landscape Services. For a private <br /> land-owner within Chaffee County, the NRM has provided landscaping services <br /> of; 1) tree planting, 2) timber thinning, and 3) seedling watering. These services <br /> are also being mapped and tracked as a database so that the owner can <br /> determine suitable next steps for landscaping needs. <br /> Lake Fork Watershed — Dinero Complex Remediation. The NRM was <br /> successful in procuring funds through the Clean Water Act Section 319 Nonpoint <br /> Source Pollution prevention program, to design and implement stormwater run- <br /> on/runoff control features to a series of mine waste piles leaching metals <br /> contaminants to the Lake Fork watershed. The process has involved the <br /> completion of a multi-tired grant procurement process including a series of <br /> response for proposals, public presentations and threatened and endangered <br /> species act compliance issues. Once completed, the NRM has partnered with <br /> the Bureau of Land Management and the Division of Minerals and Geology to <br /> combine funding sources in order to complete a mine waste removal strategy. <br /> This process has involved preliminary engineering evaluation of the piles material <br /> and repository area characteristics in order to determine if waste removal is a <br /> feasible alternative. The NRM was then responsible for completing and <br /> documenting an Engineered Early Action Compliance effort for community review <br /> and response, in addition to the production of competitive bid documentation and <br /> review. Once the remedy is completed (anticipated Fall, 2002), the NRM is <br /> responsible for construction completion documentation as well as 5 year <br /> monitoring and compliance. <br /> AQUAFIX Pilot Study Implementation. The Bureau of Land Management <br /> pursued the installation of an AQUAFIX® in-situ treatment unit for the Dinero adit <br /> within the Sugarloaf mining district. This in-situ treatment is a lime (calcium <br /> oxide) reagent reaction with acid mine waters that is flow driven in regards to <br /> release rate. The BLM requested that NRM help install, maintain and sample the <br /> pilot system for the 4-month duration of the study. <br /> Forage Bioaccumulation Investigation. The U.S. Environmental Protection <br /> Agency in coordination with the Emergency Response Team has been <br /> evaluation the fate, transport and bioaccumulation of California Gulch fluvial <br /> tailings related metals within what is termed `the 11 mile reach' of fluvial tailings <br /> deposition within the Arkansas River Corridor. The NRM was tasked to create <br /> exclusion areas for plants to be able to inhabit and grow without the possible loss <br /> to wildlife and livestock, thus allowing for uptake and depuration in plant tissues. <br /> The NRM maintained the exclosures as well as documented the conditions of the <br />