2013-09-13_GENERAL DOCUMENTS - M1983033

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F C Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response ♦ ^R �A e]6 Colorado Department Environmental Release and Incident System Report of Public Health and Environment Print date 9/13/2013 CASE NUMBER: 2013 -0592 DATE ENTERED: 9/13/2013 TIME ENTERED: 12:18 WHO TOOK REPORT: ANN NEDROW/ NRC DATE REPORTED. 9/13/2013 TIME REPORTED: 9:45:00 AM NRC NUMBER. 1060086 CALLER. DAVID HOLM CONFIDENTIAL: N PHONE: 303 - 601 -6320 ORGANIZATION- CLEAR CREEK WATERSHED FOUNDATION STREET: 2060 MINER ST CITY: IDAHO SPRINGS COUNTY STATE: CO ZIP CODE: 80452 - POTENTIALLY RESPONSIBLE PARTY FREI QUARRY PRP CONTACT: ALBERT FREI PRP PHONE- ADDRESS- JUNCTION OF 1 -70 AND HWY 6 EMAIL: CITY: COUNTY CLEAR CREEK STATE CO ZIP CODE EVENT DATE: 9/13/2013 EVENT TIME: 8 00:00 AM LOCATION FREI QUARRY, JUNCTION OF 1 -70 AND HWY 6; MINE IS NEAR THE MILE MARKER: BORDER OF CLEAR CREEK AND GILPIN COUNTIES, FINES ARE ON THE CLEAR CREEK SIDE CITY: COUNTY: CLEAR CREEK Latitude: STATE CO ZIP CODE Longitude: TYPE OF MATERIAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALI CRUSHEDMINE FINES QUANTITYI 500000 UNIT1: CU YARDS QTY TO WATERI: 10000 UNIT1: O MATERIAL2: QUANTITY2: UNIT2- QTY TO WATER2: UNIT2 MATERIAL3: QUANTITY3. UN1T3: QTY TO WATER3: UNIT3: SOURCE X SOURCE TYPE MINE QUARRY CAUSE: NATURAL PHENOMENON CAUSE INFORMATION The rain has soaked a hundreds of thousands of cubic yards pile of crushed mine fines. Now that it is wet, it is flowing down the hill into an unnamed tributary to the North Fork of Clear Creek and flowing towards Golden This was observed this morning (while driving by) by Mike Crouse, who is a trained hydrologist. He was on his way to a location where he could not make phone calls so contacted the caller to report this. Mike Crouse will be available later In the day at 303- 807 -4001 The pile of fines is about one mile upstream (not sure from what). Caller left a message for Golden. The fine is not composed of hard rock or metal mining material One would expect It to contain metals and possibly uranium.