WSP11033

• File Number: 8272.100.70
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 6/1/1975
• Author: CRBSCF
• Title: Water Quality Standards for Salinity Including Numeric Criteria and Plan of Implementation for Salinity Control
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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"NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the conferees of
California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah
and Wyoming that:

"I) a salinity policy be adopted for the Colorado
River system that would have as its objective the
maintenance of salinity concentrations at or below
levels presently found in the lower main stem;

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"2) in implementing the salinity policy objective
for the Colorado River system the salinity problem be
treated as a basinwide problem that needs to be solved
to maintain Lower Basin water salinity at or below
present levels while the Upper Basin continues to
develop its compact-apportioned water, recognizing
that salinity levels may rise until control measures
Clre made effective;"

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"7) the adoption of numerical criteria be deferred
until the potential effectiveness of Colorado River
salinity control measures is better known;"

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The Conferees, official representatives of the seven Basin

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States and the Environmental Protection Agency, at the reconvened
seventh session on April 26-27, 1972, unanimously adopted conclusions
and recommendations pertaining to the salinity problems of the

Colorado River. These were in lieu of numeric criteria which were

still thought to be premature. The conclusions and recommendations

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which were approved by Mr. William D. Ruchelshaus, Administrator
of the Environmental Protection Agency in June 1972, also are shown

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in Appendix C. The most significant part of the conclusions and

recommendations of the Reconvened Seventh Session is as follows:

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