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MONITORING - Water Quality <br />Attached is water quality data for; <br />1) Mayflower Millsite area <br />a) Animas River above (AR3.5) and below (AR4) complex. <br />2) American Tunnel area <br />a) Cement Creek above (CC1) and below (CC2) complex. <br />b) Springs in the area of the now reclaimed waste dump <br />(ATS1, ATS2). These springs no longer flow from their <br />original sites because of the waste dump reclamation <br />and are no longer sampled. Copies of old data was not <br />included. <br />MONITORING - Discussion of Water Quality Monitoring Results <br />1) Mayflower Millsite area <br />The Animas River monitoring results continue to exhibit <br />increased zinc and manganese concentrations between <br />upstream and downstream monitoring points although the <br />differential for zinc appears to have been reduced as a <br />result of the completed diversions and reclamation <br />projects. <br />2) American Tunnel area <br />Cement Creek monitoring shows metals concentrations are <br />similar between the points with some elevation for most <br />metals between the upstream and downstream points. The <br />metals with the largest increase are iron, manganese and <br />zinc. <br />The seep ATS2, originally from the toe of the American <br />Tunnel waste dump, has either relocated or dried up. The <br />seep ATS1 appears to have disappeared or relocated due to <br />the reclamation of the waste dump. <br />