Colorado Water
Portions of 6 Colorado streams are being added to the state's list of polluted waters, according to the Denver Post [August 4, 2004, "EPA orders additions to list of polluted waters"]. From the article, "Six more waterways should be added to the state's list of polluted waters for which cleanup plans are required, the Environmental Protection Agency has decided. The EPA order overrules a decision by Colorado's Water Quality Control Commission to exclude the stretches from its 2004 list, adopted in March. With the six additions, there would be 123 streams on the list, the longest since Colorado began tracking such problems in 1989...The new segments include an 11-mile stretch of Bear Creek, which provides drinking water to Genesee, Evergreen, Kittredge and Morrison and parts of unincorporated Jefferson County. The EPA also wanted to add the Dolores River and Red Mountain Creek in southwest Colorado; two tributaries to the Blue River in Summit County; and a stretch of the South Platte River downstream of the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District, which treats sewage for much of the Denver region."
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