La Plata County Commissioners will decide whether to approve a $25,000 amendment to the county budget to fund a mercury-monitoring study at Vallecito reservoir and in the Pine River...The state of Colorado posted warning signs last summer advising residents of dangerous mercury levels in the tissues of predatory fish caught in the river and reservoir...The county funds will be used to purchase monitoring equipment and construct a monitoring station at Vallecito, and the group will work to raise another $10,000 to operate the monitoring station. the station also will include weather equipment to monitor wind speed and direction, temperature and precipitation.

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