WSP12020

• File Number: 8272.500
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control - Colo Dept of Public Health - WQCC and WQCD
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 9/15/1976
• Author: Dept of Health -WQCC
• Title: Colorado River Salinity Standards
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Should water development projects be completed before control
measures are brought on line, temporary increases above the
criteria could result and these increases will be in conformance
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f\) measures, salinity would return to or below the criteria lev~l.
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~ Periodic increases above the criteria as a result of unfavorable
reservoir conditions or periods of below normal annual river flows
also will be in conformance with the standards, provided that, with
satisfactory reservoir conditions and when river flows return to
normal, concentrations are expected to be at or below the criteria
level.

Nothing in this regulation shall .be construed to alter, amend, repe{ll,
construe, interpret, modify, or be in conflict with the provisions of
the Boulder canyon Project Act (45 Stat, 1057), the Boulder Canyon
Project Adjustment Act (54 Stat. 774), the Colorado River Storage
Project Act (70 Stat. 105), the Colorado River Basin Project Act
(82 Stat, 885), the Colorado River Compact, the Upper Colorado River
Basin Compact, or the Treaty with the United Mexican States (Treaty
Series 994).

3.9.4

CLASSIFIED USES

The uses of the waters of the Colorado River and its tributaries in
Colorado are those as adopted by the Water Quality Control Commission
in separate classification actions including any amendments or changes
thereto.

3.9.5

IMPLEMENTATION

As authorized by the Colorado Water Quality Control Act, C.R.S. 1973,
25-8-101 et ~., as Pmended, the Water Quality Control Commission
and the Water Quality Control Division will implement the standard
in compliance with Sections 208 and 402 of the Clean Water Act.
In addition, the triennial report and supplement thereto of the
Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum concerning the Plan
of Implementation for Salinity Control for the Colorado River
System have been adopted separately as a policy statement by
the Commission. By adopting these as policy statements, the
Commission endorses the components of the plan for implementation
by entities with the authority to do so.

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3.9.6

PERIODIC REVIEW

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These standards shall be reviewed periodically for the purpose of de-
termining whether modifications are necessary consistent with such
plans as the Forum may endorse, and so that the basin states may con-
tinue to develop their compact-apportioned waters while providing the
best practicable water quality in the Colorado River basin.

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THE CODE OF COLORADO REGULATIONS

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