California Gulch

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The California Gulch site consists of approximately 18 square miles in Lake County, Colorado. The area includes the city of Leadville, parts of the Leadville Historic Mining District and a section of the Arkansas River from the confluence of California Gulch downstream to the confluence of Two-Bit Gulch.[1] The site was listed as a Superfund site in 1983.

  1. ^ "Superfund Site: California Gulch, Leadville, CO". U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Retrieved 2017-03-30.