Toxics Substances Hydrology - Upper Arkansas River Basin




French Gulch
July 1996


Photo by T.S. Lovering (1926), showing the Wellington Mine area in French Gulch in the Breckenridge district of Summit County.

Results

Kimball, B.A., Runkel, R.L., and Gerner, L.J., 1999, Quantification of metal loading in French Gulch, Summit County, Colorado, using a tracer- injection study, July 1996: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4078, 38 p.

Acknowledgments

The French Gulch synoptic was done in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology. Field assistance was provided by Mathew Day, Warren Day, Bob Hirsch, Leo House, Bryn Kimball, Art Morrisey, Paul Osbourne, Zac Vohs, Tom Willingham, and members of the research team.