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Pub. Date
2009.
Description
The DuPont-Louviers site is a former explosives manufacturing facility that operated during most of the 20th century. The Colorado Cooperative Program for Environmental Health assessments (CCPEHA) conduct a health consultation to evaluate the potential public health hazards associated with site-related contamination that remains on the property. This health consultation addresses the area of the DuPont-Louviers site that is outside of the security...
Pub. Date
2013
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This site is one of the "Superfund" hazardous waste sites in Colorado. A site qualifies for the National Priorities List (NPL or Superfund list) when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determines there is a release or threatened release of hazardous substances that may endanger public health, welfare or the environment. In Colorado, the lead agency for Superfund remediation may be either the EPA or the Colorado Department of Public Health...
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Pub. Date
2013.
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Health and well-being are shaped by many different factors. Among these factors are health-related behaviors, such as, nutrition, physical activity, sleep, social support and stress. These behaviors affect our sense of well-being and significantly influence our risk of many common chronic diseases. Maintaining a healthy weight is an important part of good health. Research indicates that being either underweight or overweight is associated with poor...
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Electronic equipment like computer monitors, central processing units (CPUs), keyboards, mice, scanners, and cell phones contain a number of hazardous constituents such as lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, chromium and silver. Many of these constituents are found on the circuit boards or in the glass. Computers also contain a battery such as nickel-cadmium, lithium or sealed lead acid. These constituents are not a concern while the equipment is in...
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Wildfires in Colorado have been increasing in frequency and severity, often leading to longer watershed recovery periods and necessitating an "all hands on deck" approach to post-fire rehabilitation. Counties, tribes, municipalities, and water providers are typically the entities most directly and immediately impacted by wildfire and post-fire erosion and flooding, yet there is a gap in guidance in terms of navigating the complexities surrounding...
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Quick response research report volume 138
Pub. Date
[2001]
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There is considerable evidence that the experience of extremely stressful events can lead to both short- and long-term psychological and physical health risks. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a brief structured writing task on post-disaster adjustment.
13) Total maximum daily load assessment, Clear Creek: Clear Creek/Gilpin/Jefferson Counties, Colorado
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
"The Clear Creek watershed is a medium size watershed that is a tributary to the South Platte River. The mainstem of Clear Creek from Silver Plume to the Farmers Highline Canal diversion in Golden, and several tributaries including South Clear Creek Leavenworth Creek, Mad Creek, Fall River, and Trail Creek, appear on the Colorado 2006 303(d) list for excessive dissolved cadmium, copper, lead, and zinc. These metals impair the Aquatic Life Cold 1 or...
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
The Alamosa River Watershed Restoration Master Plan and Environmental Assessment (Master Plan) summarizes current environmental conditions and develops solutions for identified problems that will lead to a healthier watershed. The scope of the Master Plan includes the entire watershed (not just the area directly affected by Summitville Mine), and covers a broad array of natural resources and watershed functions and values. The result is a multidisciplinary...
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"When the residents of Leadville, Colorado awoke the morning of February 23, 1983, it was to the Arkansas River gushing blood red with toxic mine waste headed straight to a pump station supplying public water. The event sparked a Superfund cleanup that drew national attention at the same time the mining industry abandoned the people it had supported with employment for more than a century.
That volatile formula catapulted the town into a modern-day...
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Pub. Date
2022
Description
Mindfulness facilitated by the practice of breath-focused meditation is the essence of one's own inner transformation. Becoming aware of our senses leads to our understanding of self. Self-awareness leads to freedom.
One's own knowledge is ever evolving, so to say 'this is the way, the only way, the right way' is to view and understand life as static.
The truth is, life is fluid. Understanding is fluid and moves around, over, under, and sometimes...
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