Download or read book Restoring the Shining Waters written by David Brooks and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No sooner had the EPA established the Superfund program in 1980 to clean up the nation’s toxic waste dumps and other abandoned hazardous waste sites, than a little Montana town found itself topping the new program’s National Priority List. Milltown, a place too small to warrant a listing in the U.S. Census, sat alongside a modest hydroelectric dam at the confluence of the Clark Fork and Blackfoot Rivers. For three-quarters of a century, arsenic-laced waste from some of the world’s largest copper-mining operations had accumulated behind the dam. Soon, Milltown became the site of Superfund’s first dam removal and watershed restoration, marking a turning point in U.S. environmental history. The story of this dramatic shift is the tale of individuals rallying to reclaim a place they valued beyond its utility. In Restoring the Shining Waters, David Brooks gives an intimate account of how local citizens—homeowners, university scientists, county health officials, grassroots environmentalists, business leaders, and thousands of engaged residents—brought about the removal of Milltown Dam. Interviews with townspeople, outside environmentalists, mining executives, and federal officials reveal how the everyday actions of individuals got the dam removed and, in the process, pushed Superfund to allow more public participation in decision making and to emphasize restoration over containment of polluted environments. A federal program designed to deal with the toxic legacies of industrialization thus became a starting point for restoring America’s most damaged environments, largely through the efforts of local communities. With curiosity, conviction, and a strong sense of place, the small town of Milltown helped restore an iconic western river valley—and in doing so, shaped the history of Superfund and modern environmentalism.

Download or read book Milltown Dam on the Clark Fork River Town of Milltown Missoula County Montana written by Fred Quivik and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Addendum to Milltown Dam Powerhouse on the Clark Fork River Town of Milltown Missoula County Montana written by Kristi Hager and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Consent Decree for the Milltown Site written by United States. District Court (Montana) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Petrogenesis of the Milltown Dam Sill Missoula County Montana written by H. Richard Eisenbeis and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Opportunity Montana written by Brad Tyer and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir-meets-exposé that examines our fraught relationship with the West and our attempts to clean up a toxic environmental legacy In 2002, Texas journalist Brad Tyer strapped a canoe on his truck and moved to Montana, a state that has long exerted a mythic pull on America’s imagination as an unspoiled landscape. The son of an engineer who reclaimed wastewater, Tyer was looking for a pristine river to call his own. What he found instead was a century’s worth of industrial poison clotting the Clark Fork River, a decades-long engineering project to clean it up, and a forgotten town named Opportunity. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Montana exploited the richest copper deposits in the world, fueling the electric growth of twentieth-century America and building some of the nation’s most outlandish fortunes. The toxic by-product of those fortunes—what didn’t spill into the river—was dumped in Opportunity. In the twenty-first century, Montana’s draw is no longer metal but landscape: the blue-ribbon trout streams and unspoiled wilderness of the nation’s “last best place.” To match reality to the myth, affluent exurbanites and well-meaning environmentalists are trying to restore the Clark Fork River to its “natural state.” In the process, millions of tons of toxic soils are being removed and dumped—once again—in Opportunity. As Tyer investigates Opportunity’s history, he wrestles with questions of environmental justice and the ethics of burdening one community with an entire region’s waste. Stalled at the intersection of a fading extractive economy and a fledgling restoration boom, Opportunity’s story is a secret history of the American Dream and a key to understanding the country’s—and increasingly the globe’s—demand for modern convenience. As Tyer explores the degradations of the landscape, he also probes the parallel emotional geography of familial estrangement. Part personal history and part reportorial narrative, Opportunity, Montana is a story of progress and its price: of copper and water, of father and son, and of our attempts to redeem the mistakes of the past.

Download or read book Tracking Release of Reservoir Sediment Contaminated by Heavy Metal Mining Waste written by Katrina Louise Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The removal of Milltown Dam at the confluence of the Clark Fork and Blackfoot rivers, near Missoula, Montana, caused an elevation in heavy metals concentration in downstream sediment. The primary source of contamination came from base metal extraction mining waste which had collected in reservoir sediments for more than a century. Health and environmental concerns associated with high concentrations of arsenic and copper in the sediment and nearby groundwater prompted the removal of the dam and its toxic sediments. Milltown Dam was breached on March 28, 2008. Fine-grain (

Download or read book Estimated Loads Of Suspended Sediment And Selected Trace Elements Transported Through The Clark Fork Basin Montana In Selected Periods Before And After The Breach Of Milltown Dam Water Years 1985 2009 written by U.S. Department of the Interior and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milltown Reservoir is a National Priorities List Superfund site in the upper Clark Fork basin of western Montana where sediments enriched in trace elements from historical mining and ore processing have been deposited since the completion of Milltown Dam in 1908. Milltown Dam was breached on March 28, 2008, as part of Superfund remediation activities to remove the dam and excavate contaminated sediment that had accumulated in Milltown Reservoir. In preparation for the breach of Milltown Dam, permanent drawdown of Milltown Reservoir began on June 1, 2006, and lowered the water-surface elevation by about 10 to 12 feet. After the breach of Milltown Dam, the water-surface elevation was lowered an additional 17 feet.

Download or read book Milltown Reservoir Sediments Superfund Site written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sampling and Modeling of Sediment Transport and Reservoir Erosion Following Dam Removal written by James Walden Johnsen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measurements of bedload transport in combination with suspended sediment and discharge data collected by the USGS illustrate the rates, magnitudes and processes by which reservoir sediment evacuated the Milltown Reservoir after the 2008 removal of Milltown Dam from just downstream of the confluence of the Blackfoot and Clark Fork Rivers, Montana. Mobilized sediments transported as a series of distinct waves and the speed at which the waves moved downstream was dependent upon the grain size of the sediment. Sand and smaller sized particles were transported out of the reservoir rapidly both as bedload and in suspension with different thresholds for incipient motion between the confined Blackfoot and unconfined alluvial Clark Fork Arms of the reservoir. Bedload sediments, gravel and larger sized, transported downstream as a dispersing and translating wave. Sediment budget calculations, both volumetric and transport derived, illustrate the one-dimensional HEC-6 and DREAM-1 model's inaccuracy in predicting sediment transport in unconfined alluvial deposits while both models predicted accurately confined channel geometry transport settings. Results from sampling and modeling demonstrate that the most important factors in reservoir sediment transport are the channel geometry, hydrology, and grain size and location of the reservoir sediment; which in turn determine distance, processes and timing of transport.

Download or read book Sampling and Analysis Plan for Milltown Reservoir Site Milltown Montana written by Camp, Dresser & McKee and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Estimated Loads of Suspended Sediment and Selected Trace Elements Transported Through the Milltown Reservoir Project Area Before and After the Breaching of Milltown Dam in the Upper Clark Fork Basin Montana Water Year 2008 written by John H. Lambing and published by Geological Survey (USGS). This book was released on 2009 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Missoula s Copper King Legacy written by Kellyn Younggren and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Milltown Dam, located at the juncture of the Blackfoot and Clark Fork Rivers eight miles east of Missoula, Montana, presents an interesting case study of the collision of important environmental policy changes in the wake of a stronger, more defined American environmental consciousness. Years of systematic degradation of the Clark Fork River Valley because of irresponsible mining waste disposal, created an intensely dangerous situation for human and environmental health around the Milltown Dam. This discussion of the removal of the dam focuses on local public support to dismantle the structure in the interest of removing toxic substances from a waterway and how this illustrates the important legal and social advances in environmental responsibility over the last half century.

Download or read book Surface Water and Groundwater Exchanges in Fine and Coarse Grained River Bed Systems and Responses to Initial Stages of Dam Removal Milltown Montana written by Anthony Joseph Farinacci and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Estimated Loads of Suspended Sediment and Selected Trace Elements Transported Through the Clark Fork Basin Montana in Selected Periods Before and After the Breach of Milltown Dam Water Years 1985 2009 written by Steven Kent Sando and published by Geological Survey (USGS). This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Milltown Dam written by Fred Quivik and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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