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<br />several facilities including a swimming beach, trails, maintenance <br /> <br /> <br />facilities, natural habitat improvement, picnic areas and road <br /> <br /> <br />improvements. The improvements, which are identified in the city's Bear <br /> <br /> <br />Creek Lake Park Master Plan, are closely tied to improved water quality <br /> <br /> <br />and storage of additional water to facilitate more boating, The plan <br /> <br /> <br />recognizes that the swim beach will not be completed until the water <br /> <br /> <br />quality in the reservoir is improved. <br /> <br />H. MONITORING PROGRAM AND DISCRETIONARY INFORMATION <br /> <br /> <br />The proposed monitoring program is detailed in Appendix A. <br /> <br /> <br />(ii) A. WATERSHED DESCRIPTION <br /> <br /> <br />For this Clean Lakes Study, the Bear Creek Basin is defined as the <br /> <br /> <br />hydrologic boundries tributary to Bear Creek Reservoir, beginning near <br /> <br /> <br />Evergreen, Colorado, and ending at the outlet of the reservoir. The <br /> <br /> <br />major hydrologic features include Bear Creek and its tributaries. and <br /> <br /> <br />Turkey Creek, all located in Jefferson County, Colorado, The total area <br /> <br /> <br />of the study basin excluding the reservoir is 83665 acres (33859 <br /> <br /> <br />hectares), located within the mountains west of Denver, Colorado. The <br /> <br /> <br />elevation of the basin drops 1300 feet from 7072 feet above msl at <br /> <br /> <br />Evergreen to 5772 feet msl at the reservoir dam. <br /> <br /> <br />The actual drainage basin for the reservoir extends westward from <br /> <br /> <br />Evergreen to the base of Mt. Evans. This area amounts to 21,295 acres <br /> <br /> <br />and was not included in the study area for two reasons. First. all <br /> <br /> <br />areas expected to urbanize and contribute point and nonpoint source <br /> <br /> <br />pollution are located below Evergreen, and second, national forest land <br /> <br /> <br />and county open space comprise over 99 percent of the land use above <br /> <br />27 <br />