Gunnison Basin & Grand Valley Selenium Task Forces

• Employing Innovative Data and Technology for Water Conservation Targeting & Planning in the Salinity and Selenium Affected Areas of the Lower Gunnison River Basin (Project Report) (Report Tables) (NEW!)
• Bench-scale selenium bioreactor final report
• Pilot-scale selenium bioreactor final report
• Pilot-scale selenium bioreactor presentation by Golder Associates & Mesa State College

• Effects of Piping Irrigation Laterals on Selenium and Salt Loads, Montrose Arroyo Basin, Western Colorado, *Butler, D.L. 2001
  

Remediation Pre-feasibility Reports (PDF Downloads)

• Evaluation of Selenium Remediation Concepts for Selected Tributaries/Drains in the Grand Valley of Western Colorado
• Evaluation of Options to Offset Selenium Impacts in Tributaries/Drains in the Grand Valley of Western Colorado
• Evaluation of Selenium Remediation Concepts for the Lower Gunnison and Uncompahgre Rivers, Colorado

• Review of selenium toxicity in the aquatic food chain, *Hamilton, S., 2004
• Review of residue-based selenium toxicity thresholds for freshwater fish, *Hamilton, S., 2003
• Salinization of the Upper Colorado River - Fingerprinting Geologic Salt Sources, Tuttle, M. and Grauch, R., 2009.

GENERAL

http://wwwrcamnl.wr.usgs.gov/Selenium/index.html

http://healthandwelfare.idaho.gov

Health Effects of Selenium, Idaho Bureau of Community and Environmental Health

GOVERNMENTAL

EPA: Aquatic Life Criteria for Selenium

http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=53-02-15-05

USDA Agricultural Research Service - Water Management Research Laboratory

http://co.water.usgs.gov/projects/CO284/CO284.html 

US Geological Survey National Water Quality Assessment Program (Upper Colorado River Basin)

http://www.usbr.gov/niwqp/guidelines/index.htm

National Irrigation Water Quality Program: Guidelines for the Interpretation of Selected Constituents in Biota, Water, Sediment