United States Office of Research and EPA/600/R-16/296 Environmental Protection Development January 2017 Agency Washington DC 20460 Analysis of the Transport and Fate of Metals Released from the Gold King Mine in the Animas and San Juan Rivers APPENDICES Cover photo credit: Southern Ute Indian Tribe Gold King Mine Release of Acid Mine Drainage to the Animas and San Juan Rivers Appendix A. Information about Acquired Data Sources Appendix A-1 Gold King Mine Release of Acid Mine Drainage to the Animas and San Juan Rivers Table of Contents LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ............................................................................................ 3 TABLE A-1. LINKS TO ACCESS GOLD KING MINE EVENT-RELATED DATA ................................................................. 4 TABLE A-2. LINKS TO ACCESS GOLD KING MINE POST-EVENT RELATED DATA .......................................................... 5 TABLE A-3. LINKS TO ACCESS GOLD KING MINE PRE-EVENT RELATED DATA ............................................................ 6 TABLE A-4. LINKS TO ACCESS GENERAL SOURCES OF DATA USED TO SUPPORT GROUNDWATER ANALYSIS AND MODELING . 7 TABLE A-5. LINKS TO ACCESS GENERAL SOURCES OF DATA USED TO SUPPORT ANALYSIS AND MODELING ....................... 9 TABLE A-6. CONSOLIDATED LIST OF SITES SAMPLED BY DATA PROVIDERS DURING AND AFTER THE GOLD KING MINE RELEASE .......................................................................................................................................... 10 TABLE A-7. LIST OF METALS LABORATORY METHODS FOR SURFACE WATER SAMPLES BY DATA PROVIDER .................... 21 TABLE A-8. LIST OF METALS LABORATORY METHODS FOR SEDIMENT SAMPLES BY DATA PROVIDER ............................ 27 TABLE A-9. ANALYTICAL METHODOLOGY FOR METAL ANALYSES. INCLUDES METHODS USED FOR HISTORIC SAMPLES. .... 31 TABLE A-10. LIST OF LABORATORY METHODS FOR GENERAL ANALYTES BY DATA PROVIDER. ..................................... 33 TABLE A-11. LINKS TO QUALITY ASSURANCE DOCUMENTATION FROM DATA PROVIDERS ......................................... 39 Appendix A-2 Gold King Mine Release of Acid Mine Drainage to the Animas and San Juan Rivers LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS CDPHE Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment CoF City of Farmington EC Electrical conductivity MSI Mountain Studies Institute NGO non-governmental organization NMED New Mexico Environment Department NNEPA Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency ODOSat Optical dissolved oxygen saturation RCWWN The Rivers of Colorado Water Watch Network (River Watch) RDO Rugged dissolved oxygen (probe) River Watch The Rivers of Colorado Water Watch Network (RCWWN) SADIE Superfund Analytic Data Integrator & Explorer STIC Stream Temperature, Intermittency, and Conductivity logger SUIT Southern Ute Indian Tribe UDEQ Utah Department of Environmental Quality UMUT Ute Mountain Ute Tribe USEPA United States Environmental Protection Agency USGS United States Geological Survey Appendix A-3 Gold King Mine Release of Acid Mine Drainage to the Animas and San Juan Rivers Table A-1. Links to access Gold King Mine event-related data Data source Information obtained US EPA August-November 2015 surface water and sediment quality http://www2.epa.gov/goldkingmine data US EPA Region 6 https://www.env.nm.gov/river-water-safety/animas- September 2015 sediment core quality data river-data-documents-page Federal USGS Gold King Mine Release Database August-December 2015 surface water quality data http://water.usgs.gov/owq/gkm/wq.html USGS August-September, November 2015 surface water quality data https://www.usgs.gov/ August-September 2015 sonde data Colorado Department of Public Health and August, October, December 2015 surface water quality data Environment August 2015 sediment quality data https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe/animas-river- August 2015 fish tissue data water-quality-sampling-and-data New Mexico Environment Department August 2015 surface water quality data https://www.env.nm.gov/riverwatersafety/GoldKingD States August 2015 sonde data ata.html Utah Department of Environmental Quality http://www.deq.utah.gov/Topics/Water/goldkingmine August-October 2015 surface water and sediment quality data /data.htm City of Farmington https://www.env.nm.gov/river-water-safety/animas- August-November 2015 surface water quality data City river-data-documents-page/ Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency http://waterqualitydata.us/portal/ August 2015 surface water quality data (Water Quality Portal) Southern Ute Indian Tribe ftp://ftp.southernute-nsn.gov (requires password August 2015 surface water quality data permission) August-November 2015 sonde data Tribes http://waterqualitydata.us/portal/ (Water Quality Portal) Ute Mountain Ute Tribe https://ofmpub.epa.gov/storpubl/dw_pages.querycrit August 2015 surface water quality data eria (STORET Central Warehouse) The Rivers of Colorado Water Watch Network http://waterqualitydata.us/portal August-October 2015 surface water quality data NGO (Water Quality Portal) Appendix A-4 Gold King Mine Release of Acid Mine Drainage to the Animas and San Juan Rivers Table A-2. Links to access Gold King Mine post-event related data Data source Information obtained US Environmental Protection Agency March, June 2016 surface water and sediment http://www2.epa.gov/goldkingmine quality data Federal US Geological Survey January-August 2016 surface water quality data http://waterqualitydata.us/portal (Water Quality Portal) Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment February, April-July 2016 surface water quality data https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe/animas-river-water- May-July 2016 sediment quality data quality-sampling-and-data New Mexico Environment Department February, March 2016 sediment quality data States https://www.env.nm.gov/ Utah Department of Environmental Quality February-June 2016 surface water quality data http://www.deq.utah.gov/Topics/Water/goldkingmine/data.htm February 2016 sediment quality data City of Farmington https://www.env.nm.gov/river-water-safety/animas-river-data- January-June 2016 surface water quality data City documents-page/ Southern Ute Indian Tribe March-June 2016 surface water quality data http://waterqualitydata.us/portal (Water Quality Portal) March 2016 sediment quality data Tribes https://www.southernute-nsn.gov/ Mountain Studies Institute February-June 2016 surface water quality data http://www.mountainstudies.org/animasriver NGO Appendix A-5 Gold King Mine Release of Acid Mine Drainage to the Animas and San Juan Rivers Table A-3. Links to access Gold King Mine pre-event related data Data source General location Information obtained US EPA https://ofmpub.epa.gov/storpubl/dw_pages.qu San Juan River 2000 surface water quality data for 1 site erycriteria (STORET Central Warehouse) US EPA Superfund Analytic Data Integrator & Explorer (SADIE) GKM, Cement Creek, and 2011-2015 surface water quality data https://r8.ercloud.org/sadie Animas River in Colorado 2012-2014 sediment quality data (requires password permission) USGS Gold King Mine Release Database Cement Creek; Animas 1928-2005 surface water quality data http://water.usgs.gov/owq/gkm/wq.html and San Juan Rivers 1977-2007 sediment quality data Federal USGS National Water Information System San Juan River in New 2000-2015 surface water quality data for (NWIS) Surface Water Data Mexico reference gage http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis USGS Open-File Report 97-151 appendices data Cement Creek, Animas 1995-1996 surface water and sediment https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr97151 River quality data (water only on Animas River) USGS Professional Paper 1651 database Upper Animas River 1996-2001 surface water and sediment http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1651/ Watershed quality data Colorado Department of Public Health and North Fork Cement Environment Creek, Cement Creek, 1968-2015 surface water quality data https://ofmpub.epa.gov/storpubl/dw_pages.qu and Animas River in erycriteria (STORET Central Warehouse) Colorado New Mexico Environment Department 2001-2010 surface water quality data https://ofmpub.epa.gov/storpubl/dw_pages.qu Animas and San Juan 2002 sediment quality data erycriteria (STORET Central Warehouse) Rivers in New Mexico States 2010-2014 field data https://www.env.nm.gov/ Utah Department of Environmental Quality San Juan River in Utah https://ofmpub.epa.gov/storpubl/dw_pages.qu and Utah/Colorado 1975-2014 surface water quality data erycriteria (STORET Central Warehouse) border Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency San Juan River in New 1999-2015 surface water quality data http://waterqualitydata.us/portal Mexico and Utah (Water Quality Portal) Southern Ute Indian Tribe 1992-2015 surface water quality data https://www.southernute-nsn.gov/ Animas River in SUIT 2013-2015 sonde data http://waterqualitydata.us/portal Reservation Tribes Summer 2015 fish tissue data (Water Quality Portal) San Juan River above Ute Mountain Tribe and below the 1996 -2013 surface water quality data http://www.utemountainutetribe.com/ Colorado/New Mexico border Cement Creek in The Rivers of Colorado Water Watch Network Colorado; Animas River http://waterqualitydata.us/portal 1991-2015 surface water quality data in Colorado and New NGO (Water Quality Portal) Mexico Appendix A-6 Gold King Mine Release of Acid Mine Drainage to the Animas and San Juan Rivers Table A-4. Links to access general sources of data used to support groundwater analysis and modeling Data source Information obtained GeoCommunicator Public Land Survey System (PLSS) shapefiles