Resources
Water Quality Control Commission
http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/CDPHE-WQCC/CBON/1251583391523
- Water quality standards setting;
- Policy-making;
- Adjudication/appeals
Water Quality Control Division
http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/CDPHE-WQ/CBON/1251583425927
- Staff to WQCC;
- Monitoring & assessment;
- Permitting;
- Engineering;
- Develop WQ standards proposals
EPA Region 8
http://www2.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-region-8-mountains-and-plains
- Regulatory oversight;
- Enforcement oversight;
- WQ standards approval;
- TMDL approval
Colorado Parks & Wildlife
- Participates in WQCC hearings;
- Fish stocking;
- Reviews water projects
Colorado Water Quality Forum
- Provides opportunity for informal dialogue among diverse parties representing a broad spectrum of stakeholder interests in water quality management
Colorado Water Quality Monitoring Council
http://www.coloradowaterquality.org/; http://www.coloradowaterdata.org/
- Facilitates water quality monitoring;
- Encourages data sharing;
- Outreach;
- Data upload to DSN;
- Supports Reg. 85 monitoring
CO Watershed Assembly
- Support watershed groups;
- CO River Watch Program;
- Fiscal agent for DSN
CO Wastewater Utility Council
- A forum to discuss water quality and wastewater issues;
- Develop positions on water quality and wastewater issues;
- Training & special projects
CLEAN – Center for Comprehensive, OptimaL, and Effective Abatement of Nutrients – CSU
- Physical system – identify nutrient removal and recovery solutions
- People and policy – identify effective incentives for adoption of sustainable nutrient management
- Decision making tools – develop widely transferable modeling, data and decision tools for risk and performance assessment.
SP CURE
- Water-quality monitoring;
- Data analysis & evaluation;
- Data upload to DSN;
- Fiscal agent for CO Monitoring Framework