For Immediate Release Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Water Commission Plans Hearing on
Eagle River Water Standards
Contact: Paul Frohardt, Administrator
Colorado Water Quality Control Commission
(303) 692-3468
DENVER - The Colorado Water Quality Control Commission has scheduled a
public, rule making hearing at 9 a.m. on Monday, December 12, to consider
revisions to the water quality standards for segments of the Eagle River
near Minturn.
The hearing will be held in the Sabin Room at the Colorado Department of
Public Health and Environment, 4300 Cherry Creek Drive South, in Denver.
The revisions are proposed jointly by the Department of Public Health and
Environment’s Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Division and the
Denver Regional Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Alternative revised standards have been proposed by Viacom International,
Inc.
The proposed revisions are a result of a study of the water quality
improvements resulting from a Superfund clean up of the Eagle Mine, drainage
from which impacted the quality of the Eagle River. Viacom is the former
owner of the Eagle Mine and played an active role in the cleanup, which was
overseen by the Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Division.
This hearing was originally scheduled for February 2005 but was postponed to
provide time for additional monitoring and analysis of aquatic life in the
Eagle River.
The following parties have expressed an intent to formally participate in
this hearing: Vail Associates, Inc.; Eagle Park Reservoir Company; the Eagle
River Water and Sanitation District; the Colorado Division of Wildlife; the
City of Colorado Springs; the Northwest Colorado Council of Governments;
Eagle River Watershed Council; the Town of Minturn; and Kamlet Shepherd and
Reichert, a Denver law firm.
Copies of the proposal are available on the
commission’s Web site or from the Commission Office at 303-692-3469.
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, CO
80246. Frohardt also can be reached at (303) 692-3468.
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