Silver Bow Creek runs approximately 25 miles from Butte to Warm Springs, where it joins Warm Springs Creek to form the Clark Fork River. This historic creek was terribly contaminated with mine wastes around the turn of the 20th century, leaving many slickens that persisted into the 21st century, when it became a Superfund remediation project. More than 5.5 million cubic yards of stream-deposited mine waste have been removed and 1,650 acres revegetated. Chief contaminants are copper, zinc, and arsenic, but acidic soils are often equally or more limiting to plants. The stream was relocated, and mine wastes were replaced with biologically inert cover soil. Richard A. Prodgers is currently a plant ecologist with Bighorn Environmental Sciences...
Over 100 years of mining and smelting in Butte, Montana has left a legacy of contaminated streams an...
Over 100 years of mining and smelting in Butte, Montana has left a legacy of contaminated streams an...
The Clark Fork begins its 360 mile journey to the Columbia River as Silver Bow Creek near Butte, Mon...
Silver Bow Creek runs approximately 25 miles from Butte to Warm Springs, where it joins Warm Springs...
Silver Bow Creek runs approximately 25 miles from Butte to Warm Springs, where it joins Warm Springs...
The Silver Bow Creek watershed forms part of the headwaters the Clark Fork River. Decades of mining ...
The upper Clark Fork River basin in western Montana has the dubious distinction of containing no few...
The cleanup of the Silver Bow Creek Superfund site near Butte is the largest stream and floodplain r...
The cleanup of the Silver Bow Creek Superfund site near Butte is the largest stream and floodplain r...
The Clark Fork River Basin Superfund projects span three major cleanup sites (Butte-Silver Bow, Anac...
The Silver Bow Creek watershed in southwest Montana encompasses approximately 474 square miles and f...
Silver Bow Creek is a world-class environmental-cleanup challenge that has required scientists, engi...
The Warm Springs Ponds have been helping protect the Clark Fork from mine contamination moving down ...
The Warm Springs Ponds have been helping protect the Clark Fork from mine contamination moving down ...
Silver Bow Creek is a world-class environmental-cleanup challenge that has required scientists, engi...
Over 100 years of mining and smelting in Butte, Montana has left a legacy of contaminated streams an...
Over 100 years of mining and smelting in Butte, Montana has left a legacy of contaminated streams an...
The Clark Fork begins its 360 mile journey to the Columbia River as Silver Bow Creek near Butte, Mon...
Silver Bow Creek runs approximately 25 miles from Butte to Warm Springs, where it joins Warm Springs...
Silver Bow Creek runs approximately 25 miles from Butte to Warm Springs, where it joins Warm Springs...
The Silver Bow Creek watershed forms part of the headwaters the Clark Fork River. Decades of mining ...
The upper Clark Fork River basin in western Montana has the dubious distinction of containing no few...
The cleanup of the Silver Bow Creek Superfund site near Butte is the largest stream and floodplain r...
The cleanup of the Silver Bow Creek Superfund site near Butte is the largest stream and floodplain r...
The Clark Fork River Basin Superfund projects span three major cleanup sites (Butte-Silver Bow, Anac...
The Silver Bow Creek watershed in southwest Montana encompasses approximately 474 square miles and f...
Silver Bow Creek is a world-class environmental-cleanup challenge that has required scientists, engi...
The Warm Springs Ponds have been helping protect the Clark Fork from mine contamination moving down ...
The Warm Springs Ponds have been helping protect the Clark Fork from mine contamination moving down ...
Silver Bow Creek is a world-class environmental-cleanup challenge that has required scientists, engi...
Over 100 years of mining and smelting in Butte, Montana has left a legacy of contaminated streams an...
Over 100 years of mining and smelting in Butte, Montana has left a legacy of contaminated streams an...
The Clark Fork begins its 360 mile journey to the Columbia River as Silver Bow Creek near Butte, Mon...