Community Engagement at Agua Fria Festival

The festival's goal is to recognize the contributions of the Dewey-Humboldt community to historical events such as the Civil War and the Great Mining and Smelting Era. This year’s event was sponsored by the Dewey-Humboldt Historical Society and was staged at the original Main Street Historical site. Our UA SRP field site, the Iron King Mine and Humboldt Smelter Superfund site (IKMHSS), neighbors Dewey-Humboldt.

On October 1, 2016, Dr. Monica Ramírez-Andreotta Denise Moreno Ramírez, and Emalee Eisenhauer participated in the Agua Fria festivities and hosted a UA SRP informational booth. Our booth provided community-oriented information to the public on regional contaminants of concern and recommended public health prevention/intervention strategies. Booth guests were also invited to sign up for the local community advisory board that is involved with the IKMHSS and for two UA SRP affiliated projects, the Arizona Superfund Oral History project and Gardenroots: A Citizen Science Garden Project, as well as for the Arizona Department of Health Services Biomonitoring project which tests for the presence of metals and phthalates in urine samples.