Reclaimed Flood Plain/Stream Channel at Former Site of Buckeye Mill
By Environmental Health Program
2005 (approx.)
Detailed Description
Reclaimed flood plain and stream channel at former site of the Buckeye mill tailings, 2002. Cleanup efforts conducted in 2000-01 by the USDA-Forest Service dramatically reduced erosion of metal-rich tailings into Basin Creek
Sources/Usage
Public Domain.
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