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For Immediate Release Wednesday, May 18, 2005
REVISIONS TO COLORADO’S SURFACE WATER STANDARDS TO BE
CONSIDERED
Contact: Paul Frohardt, Administrator
Colorado Water Quality Control Commission
(303) 692-3468
DENVER - The Colorado Water Quality Control Commission has scheduled a public
rulemaking hearing for 10 a.m. on Monday, June 13, to consider revisions to the
state’s Basic Standards and Methodologies for Surface Water.
The hearing, which is open to all interested persons and which will continue on
Tuesday, June 14, and possibly on Wednesday, June 15, if necessary, will be held
in the Sabin/Cleere Room at the Colorado Department of Public Health and
Environment, 4300 Cherry Creek Drive South, Denver.
The majority of the revisions to the Basic Standards and Methodologies for
Surface Water are being proposed by the Colorado Department of Public Health and
Environment’s Water Quality Control Division as staff to the commission.
Additional proposals also have been received from the towns of Paonia and
Collbran; the Colorado Water Congress Special Project on Basic Water Quality
Standards; and the Littleton-Englewood Wastewater Treatment Plant. These
proposed revisions to current basic standards and methodologies regulations,
include revised ammonia standards; modified recreation classifications; revised
anti-degradation provisions; and updated metals standards. Revisions regarding
temporary modifications of water quality standards will be considered for both
the basic standards regulations and the discharge permit regulations.
The basic standards regulations establish the framework to determine the level
of water quality protection provided to rivers, streams and lakes in Colorado.
The discharge permit regulations implement these standards into permits for
municipalities and industries, which discharge treated wastewater into Colorado
streams.
Parties, which have expressed an intent to formally participate in this hearing,
include the City of Colorado Springs and Colorado Springs Utilities; Trout
Unlimited; the City of Pueblo; Chatfield Watershed Authority; Bear Creek
Watershed Association; the City of Boulder; the Town of Hotchkiss; the Town of
Olathe; Colorado Wastewater Utility Council; Upper Gunnison River Water
Conservancy District; Colorado River Water Conservation District; Atlantic
Richfield Company; the City of Westminster; and the Pueblo Board of Water Works.
Other parties, which have expressed an interest in formally participating in the
hearing, include the Northwest Colorado Council of Governments; West Slope Water
Network; High Country Citizens’ Alliance; the City of Grand Junction; the City
of Black Hawk; Colorado Rock Products Association; Parker Water and Sanitation
District; Sky Ranch Metropolitan District No. 2; Eastern Adams County
Metropolitan District; the City of Loveland; Gunnison County Board of County
Commissioners; Denver Board of Water Commissioners; and the Gunnison County
Stockgrowers Association.
Also on the list of interested parties are the Colorado Division of Wildlife;
Pioneer Natural Resources USA Inc.; the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy
District; Metro Wastewater Reclamation District; Tri-State Generation and
Transmission Association; Colorado Mining Association; City and County of
Denver; the Southwestern Water Conservation District; the South Adams County
Water and Sanitation District; North Front Range Water Quality Planning
Association; Shell Frontier Oil and Gas; the Farmers Reservoir and Irrigation
Company; Hot Springs Lodge and Pool; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region
VIII; and the Denver Regional Council of Governments.
Copies of the notice and proposals are available on the commission’s Web
site at or from the Water Quality Control Commission Office at (303) 692-3469.
Pre-hearing statements and other written comments from interested parties are
also posted on this Web site.
Interested persons are encouraged to submit written comments to the commission
at or prior to the hearing, or to provide oral comments at the hearing.
Any written comments should be submitted to Paul Frohardt, Administrator,
Colorado Water Quality Commission, 4300 Cherry Creek Drive South, Denver, 80246,
or by e-mail to diana.glaser@state.co.us.
Comments received by Wednesday, June 1, 2005, will be distributed to commission
members for review prior to the hearing.
Frohardt also can be reached at (303) 692-3468.
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