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C~ <br />SURFACE WATER <br /> Goodspring Creek <br /> Data analysis for the period 1982 through 1992 at both <br /> the Upper Goodspring sample location, which represents <br /> undisturbed conditions upstream of mining, and the Lower <br /> Goodspring sample location, which represents disturbed <br /> conditions down gradient of the mining, indicate no <br /> significant differences in water quality between locations. <br /> There continues to be anomalies in flow from one location to <br /> the other that are attributed to beaver activity between the <br /> sites. The beaver activity continues to back water up into <br /> the Upper Goodspring sample location flume and beaver activity <br /> has encroached upon the Lower Goodspring flume also. Due to <br /> this condition, no flow measurements for the Upper Goodspring <br /> location are presented this year. Attempts have been made to <br /> remove the dams but with little long term success. Beaver <br /> activity continues to be an important element of the <br /> Goodspring Creek ecosystem and we see no reason, at the <br /> present, to change this trend. <br /> With the expansion of mining activities to the south in <br /> Section 16, Colowyo established a new upstream undisturbed <br /> surface water monitoring site called New Upper Goodspring <br /> Creek located below the confluence of the West Fork and Main <br /> Fork of Goodspring Creek. Data Analysis at this site for the <br /> last quarter of 1992 shows good water quality indicative of <br /> undisturbed conditions. Beginning in 1993, the New Upper <br />2 <br />