Uravan Mining
The Town of Uravan, located along the lower San Miguel River in Montrose County, was the site of active radium mining in the 1910s and 1920s. From 1936 to 1984 uranium and vanadium mining occurred.read...
View ArticleMarch 5, 2013--County, state board settle water dispute (Montrose Press)
Montrose County has given up its objection to a state filing for in-stream flow rights on the San Miguel River in exchange for the Uravan Trust’s water rights when those become available. County...
View ArticleApril 1, 2014--San Miguel tributary flowing free (Telluride Daily Planet)
In the 1930s, a 6-foot-tall, 60-feet-wide diversion dam was built in Tabeguache Creek, just upstream from its confluence with the San Miguel River, for the purposes of providing water to the Town of...
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