WSP11552

• File Number: 8272.800
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control program - Interested Parties - NWCCOG
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 12/1/1986
• Author: NWCCOG
• Title: Northwest Colorado Council of Governments - Areawide Water Quality Management Plan for Eagle - Grand - Jackson - Pitkin - Routt and Summitt Counties CO - revised December 1986
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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II. Executive Summary

A. Overview

The 1986 Plan Update presents the NWCCOG 208 Plan in a
substantially new format, while making minor revisions
to the policies used in implementing the plan. The
primary purpose of this revised format is to present
the documentation for NWCCOG 208 Plan adoption and
implementation efforts in a single consolidated package
and to incorporate all changes and new information
which has become available since the Plan was adopted
in 1979 and 1981. It is meant to be the current
working document for maintaining and improving water
quality in the Region consistent with the requirements
of the Clean Water Act.

The 1986 Plan Update is described in two volumes and a
set of eleven technical appendices. Volume I describes
the water quality program development in a format
similar to the specific items contained in Colorado's
guidelines for areawide water quality management
planning. Volume I draws on material contained in
previous 208 Plan submittals which were presented in a
policy plan format (Volume II) and from technical
appendix material. Volume I provides supporting
information for the development and adoption of
policies for water quality management currently in
practice in Region XII and provides an update of the
status of water quality programs which have taken place
since the adoption of the plan in 1979.

Volume II is presented in a policy plan format and
describes the program recommendations to protect and
enhance the level of water quality consistent with the
requirements of the Clean Water Act. This volume is
intended to provide the direction for water quality
decisions resulting from activities which have the
potential to generate both point and non-point sources
of water quality degradation in the Region. This
volume of the plan is organized around 10 policies
which will lead to maintaining and improving water
quality in the Region. Under each policy,
administrative guidelines are presented for use by
agencies who have and will continue to implement the
plan. These "management agencies" are identified in
Policy 11 of Volume II and the rational for their
selection is discussed in Chapter VIII of Volume I.
The appendices provide supporting technical information
regarding specific water quality problems addressed in
the plan.

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