Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction From Gold Medal to Gold Metal Waters 3
4. 1 A Tale of Two Places 29
5. 2 The Gold King Mine Release 57
6. 3 A Potent Focusing Event 71
7. 4 From Deep Time to Deep Valleys 106
8. 5 Watershed Consciousness 135
9. 6 Tourist Season 154
10. 7 Contaminated Mines or Minds 172
11. 8 Social Impacts of the Gold King Mine Spill on the Animas–San Juan River Watershed Communities 190
12. 9 The Problems of Litigating Hardrock Mining 218
13. 10 Divergent Perspectives on AMD Remediation in the Upper and Lower Animas Watersheds 239
14. Afterword We All Live Downstream 263
15. Contributors 271
16. Index 273