Spearfish South Dakota
ATSDR - PHA - ANNIE CREEK MINE TAILINGS (RELIANCE TAILINGS), LEADE, LAWRENCE COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA
There are 20 homes located along the Annie Creek and Spearfish Creek (near its confluence withAnnie Creek). Fifteen residences are vacation homes with limited annual occupance, three arepermanent residences, and two are summer homes. The number of occupants of these residencesare unknown. One permanent residence is located on Spearfish Creek, upstream from theconfluence with Annie Creek. Two other residences are located one mile from the confluence onSpearfish Creek. The only residence in the Annie Creek drainage is the Kannenberg cabin whichis used as a vacation home. This cabin is located 3/4 miles from the site. A commercial districtis located in Lead, about 3.5 miles east of the site. Terry Peak Ski Resort is located one mile south of the site ( 3 ). ... [Read More]
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service-D.C. Booth National Historic Fish Hatchery
By the 1940s, the water supply at Spearfish had become increasingly undependable. This resulted in the acquisition of land 12 miles west of Spearfish from Judge McNenny and the State of South Dakota to rear fish. In 1949, a new hatchery was constructed and named the McNenny National Fish Hatchery. Between the McNenny and Spearfish National Fish Hatcheries, nearly one million fish were produced annually. The Spearfish center became a training academy for fish culture courses and a center for fish nutrition or diet development. ... [Read More]
Healthy South Dakota - Schools
Spearfish Canyon Half Marathon & 5K Walk ... The Spearfish Canyon Half Marathon and 5K walk is a benefit for the Northern Hills Area Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Program. The NHCASA Program seeks to promote and protect the best interests of abused and neglected children involved in court proceedings through the advocacy efforts of trained volunteers. ... [Read More]
ATSDR - PHA - ANNIE CREEK MINE TAILINGS (RELIANCE TAILINGS), LEADE, LAWRENCE COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA
The City of Spearfish currently obtains its water supply from a 600 foot well located in theMadison Formation. In the past, municipal water was obtained from Spearfish Creek. Therewere three diversions of Spearfish Creek between the confluence with Annie Creek and the Cityof Spearfish. There were two hydroplants for Homestake Mining Company and the City ofSpearfish Municipal water intake. Between the Hydroplant #1 and the City of SpearfishMunicipal water intake, Spearfish Creek is dry. The only water that reached the city watersupply was from springs and drainages below Hydroplant #1. Therefore, contaminated surfacewater from Annie and Spearfish Creek did not reach the Spearfish municipal intake. A letterfrom the City of Spearfish stated that no water from Annie Creek reached the Spearfish'smunicipal water intake. ... [Read More]
Healthy South Dakota - Health Professionals
Spearfish Canyon Half Marathon & 5K Walk ... The Spearfish Canyon Half Marathon and 5K walk is a benefit for the Northern Hills Area Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Program. The NHCASA Program seeks to promote and protect the best interests of abused and neglected children involved in court proceedings through the advocacy efforts of trained volunteers. ... [Read More]
ATSDR - PHA - ANNIE CREEK MINE TAILINGS (RELIANCE TAILINGS), LEADE, LAWRENCE COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA
ATSDR recommended that the total arsenic concentration of edible species of fish from Annieand Spearfish Creek be monitored to ensure the quality of fish was safe for the recreational consumer. Fish were sampled in Annie and Spearfish Creek. ... Actions Undertaken ATSDR recommended that groundwater in the alluvium and deep aquifers be monitored todetermine if there is an impact of Reliance Tailings on the water that supplies private wells alongSpearfish Creek. An inventory was conducted to determine the status of residential propertiesaround the Reliance Tailing Site (vacation versus permanent residence); all domestic wells wereinventoried (location, potential use; screened interval; and water quality); groundwater in Annie and Spearfish Creek was monitored. ... [Read More]
Hydrology, Hazards, and Geomorphic Development of Gypsum Karst in the Northern Black Hills, South Dakota and Wyoming
Dissolution of gypsum and anhydrite in the Minnelusa and Spearfish Formations in the northern Black Hills has led to subsidence and collapse resulting in the development of disrupted bedding, breccia pipes and pinnacles in the Minnelusa, and sinkholes and breccia pipes extending up into the Spearfish and higher formations. Many of these sinkholes in the Spearfish are sites of resurgent springs where the potentiometric surface is above the land surface. Dry steep-walled sinkholes are located where the potentiometric surface lies below the bottom of the sinkhole. The largest sinkholes are the result of dissolution of the thick anhydrite in the subsurface Minnelusa and consequent stoping to the surface. As the dissolution front of the Minnelusa anhydrite moves radially outward from the center of the Black Hills, and as the potentiometric surface falls to lower stratigraphic levels while the land surface is lowered by erosion, the present springs will dry up and new ones will develop down ... [Read More]
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