"The toxic Colorado river spill and the menace of old hard-rock mines". Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. ^ "Animas La Plata Project Implementation of the Colorado Ute Settlement Act Amendments of 2000"."Geologist: Coal outcrops cause methane hot spot". ^ "Colorado Ute Settlement Acts" (PDF).List of tributaries of the Colorado River.Brown trout as large as 36 inches (91 cm) have been caught in the Animas. Larger trout in the 17 to 22 inches (43 to 56 cm) are occasionally caught by anglers. Animas trout average 12 to 16 inches (30 to 41 cm). In late spring, summer and through fall the Animas sees caddisfly and mayfly hatches as well as terrestrials such as grasshoppers. Insect hatches of aquatic diptera and mayflies occur in the winter and spring months. Recreational fishing with artificial lures and flies on the Animas is available year-round due to moderate winter weather. It is considered a gold medal fishery above Rivera Bridge Crossing in Colorado. The Animas is a freestone fishery well populated with rainbow, brown, Colorado River cutthroat, and brook trout. The Animas river is a major white water rafting attraction accounting for 8.9% of Colorado's commercial rafting market while annually generating 45,411 commercial user days and direct expenditures of $5,207,033 (2011 est). The Animas River between Cedar Hill, New Mexico, and the Colorado border " The metals considered are "cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, zinc, and possibly others." Recreation In February 2016, the Associated Press reported that the spill "dumped 880,000 pounds of metals" into the Animas River, and that "most of the metals settled into the riverbed. The river's fish population might also be at risk due to the toxic waste that now runs through the river. The spill changed the color of the river to orange, and the spill was described as "devastating" by Kim Stevens, the director of Environment Colorado, who said that businesses who rely on the river for profit might have to close down. There may be other toxic heavy metals in the plume.
The spill contained the toxic metals arsenic, cadmium, and lead, as well as the metals aluminum and copper. The mine was last active in the 1920s, but it had been leaking toxic water at a rate of 50 to 250 gallons a minute for years. The plug was accidentally removed while investigating a leak at the abandoned Gold King Mine. In August 2015, the La Plata County Sheriff's Office closed the river to the public after a crew working for the EPA released approximately 3 million gallons of mine waste into Cement Creek, a tributary of the Animas. Main article: 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill The Animas serves as habitat to resident and migratory bald eagles which arrive in the winter months to take advantage of the ice-free river. The Durango Pumping Plant, completed in 2011, as part of the Animas-La Plata Water Project, draws an average annual of 57,100 acre-feet from the river, for storage in Lake Nighthorse. Numerous irrigation ditches serve the surrounding farmland along the river. The ancestral Puebloan site of Aztec Ruins National Monument is situated along the river in the present day town of Aztec and for much of its course the river flows through native Ute and Navajo lands. The only major tributary of the Animas River is the Florida River which confluences just north of the Colorado–New Mexico border.Ī methane seep was reported on the river in Durango, Colorado in 2016. From Durango the river flows south into New Mexico through the town of Aztec to its confluence with the San Juan River at Farmington. The Durango and Silverton Narrow gauge railroad follows the river through the canyon to Durango.
At Silverton, the river flows into the Animas Canyon. The Animas River rises high in San Juan Mountains of Colorado at the confluence of the West and North forks at the ghost town of Animas Forks and flows south past the ghost towns of Eureka and Howardsville. Jig on the swing all colors.The Animas River from a foot bridge in Farmington Nymph’s: Princes,Rainbow warriors, Stonebombs,Brillon’s Lucent H.E. Nymph’s: Small PT’s and Hares ears, Quillidigon in Natural and Pink South Fork of The Rio Grande: Big Meadows: Rio Chama:įlow 133 CFS: above town, Below El Vado 452 CFSīest flies Nymphs: Stonefly Nymphs, Prince Nymphsīest Flies Dry: Chubby and Stimi’s Pass and Park Creeks: off and on? Streamers: Autumn Splender, Black and Purple Articulated. Nymphs: Jig Prince, Orange CDC Pheasant, Brillion Lucent HEĭrys: Hoppers, Chubby’s, Stimi’s, Para Hare”s Flies: Animas River, Durango: Not to bad.īest Flies: Stone fly patterns, Pat’s Rubber Legs, Pheasant tails, Pt Spectra 94, Pettitosso on the Swing, Collaretto, Tricolor, Caddis and many of our Competition Flies, Trout Stalker Ranch:įlow 133 Cfs.
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