Gore Creek cleanup plan nears approval

By scott miller

VAIL — Gore Creek has had a lot of human interference in the past 50 years. Improving the stream’s water quality is going to take some time.State officials in 2012 placed Gore Creek — as well as a number of other mountain-town streams — on a list of ecologically impaired waterways in Colorado, but that doesn’t mean the creek is the equivalent of a Rust Belt river that can catch fire. Still, humans have affected Gore Creek’s aquatic life — particularly bugs that are the food supply for fish.To help repair that damage, town officials have been working for some …

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