Updated Impaired Waters List to be Considered by Commission
February 8, 2008—Denver—The Colorado Water Quality
Control Commission has scheduled a
public rulemaking hearing, beginning at 10 a.m. on Monday,
Feb. 11, to
consider proposed revisions to the list of Colorado streams,
lakes and
reservoirs that are not meeting water quality standards. A
finalized
list will be submitted to the EPA for approval under the
federal Clean
Water Act. Revisions have been proposed by the Water
Quality Control Division of
the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, as
staff to
the commission. The proposed revisions, considered by the
commission
every two years, are to Regulation No. 93, which details
Water-Quality-Limited Segments Requiring Total Maximum Daily
Loads, and
to Regulation 94, which details Colorado's Monitoring and
Evaluation
List. Regulation No. 93 is Colorado's "Section 303(d) List,"
which
identifies streams, lakes and reservoirs that are not
meeting water
quality standards. The commission meeting, open to all
interested people, will be held in
the Sabin Room at the Colorado Department of Public Health
and
Environment, 4300 Cherry Creek Drive South in Denver. The
department is
located on Cherry Creek Drive South just east of South
Colorado
Boulevard. Interested people are encouraged to submit
written comments to the
commission at or prior to the hearing, or to provide oral
comments at
the hearing. A copy of the proposal is available on the
commission’s
Web site at
www.cdphe.state.co.us/op/wqcc/index.html.
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. The Water Quality Control Division proposal
would add portions of 86
rivers, lakes or streams to the Regulation No.93 list of
water bodies
not meeting standards for one or more pollutants, based on
new
information on water quality obtained within the last two
years. The
proposal also would remove portions of 18 water bodies from
the previous
Regulation No.93 list. The division’s proposal would add
portions of 83 water bodies to the
Regulation No.94 monitoring and evaluation list, which
identifies waters
requiring more investigation to determine whether there is a
water
quality problem. The proposal would delete portions of 27
water bodies
from the previous monitoring and evaluation list. --30-- |
