Water Quality Standards for Salinity Including Numeric Criteria and Plan of Implementation for Salinity Control

• Description: Water Quality Standards for Salinity Including Numeric Criteria and Plan of Implementation for Salinity Control Colorado River System
• State: CO
• Date: 7/1/1975
• Title: Water Quality Standards for Salinity Including Numeric Criteria and Plan of Implementation for Salinity Control
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

Statement of Position Adopted by Basin States
on November 9, 1973fromo Lynn M. Thatcher, Chairman,
November 262- 1973,
Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum, to
Paul DeFalco, Jr., Regional Administrator,
Region IXj Environmental Prot -ection Agency
"The States agree that salinity criteria for the Colorado
River Basin would be useful in the final formulation of a salinity
control program such as would be undertaken by enactment of
pending Congressional Bills, H.R. 7774, H.R. 7775, and S. 1807,
and agree further that the States must cooperate with the Federal r°
government and each other in support of such legislation which
would implement the Conclusions and Recommendations published
in the proceedings of the Reconvened Seventh Session of the
Conference in the Matter of Pollution of the Interstate Waters
of the Colorado River and Its Tributaries in the States of California,
Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Wyoming,
held in Denver, Colorado on April 26 -27, 1972, under authority
of section 10 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U .S . C .
1160) , and approved by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency on June 9, 19 72.
"The States have established a mechanism for interstate
cooperation (Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum) and
for preparation of semi - annual reports on the development of
numeric criteria and the adoption of such criteria by October 18',
1975. —
"As was concluded by resolution of the Colorado River
Basin States Conferees of the Conference in the
Matter of Pollution of the Interstate Waters of the Colorado
River and Its Tributaries held in Las Vegas, Nevada and the
Reconvened Seventh Session held in Denver, implementation
of the Colorado River Salinity Control Program generally as
described in the report of the Secretary of the Interior entitled,
.'Colorado. River Water Quality Improvement Program, February
1972' would carry out the most appropriate plan of implementa-
tion for salinity control for the Colorado River system. The
appropriate objective of the project is the maintenance of
salinity at or below levels found in the lower main stem as
of April 1972, while the Upper Basin States continue to develop
their compact- apportioned waters.
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