A bicycle trail is positioned along the creekside in some of the lower reaches.

[3] Water quality is impaired in Blue Rock Springs Creek due to historic cinnabar extraction in this watershed.

Blue Rock Springs Creek has been tested for the toxin diazinon and found to have attained an elevated value of 40.9 micrograms per liter; diazinon is a toxic pesticide associated with golf course maintenance.

The stream has had application of a hydrological transport model to analyze flooding potential and to aid in the design of certain stream channel modification carried out in the last quarter of the 20th century to accommodate urbanization of some of the lower reaches.

[4][5] Shaft construction occurred no earlier than 1918 and mining had ceased by the year 1930.