Colorado Water Conservation Handbook

• Year: 2004
• Title: CWCB Board Member Handbook
• CWCB Section: Administration
• Author: CWCB
• Description: Handbook containing phone numbers, addresses, statutes, rules, policies, straegic plans and Board member work plans.
• Publications - Doc Type: Other

(2) It is further declared to be the public policy
of this state to conserve state waters and to protect,
maintain, and improve, where necessary and reasonable,
the quality thereof for public water supplies, for
protection and propagation of wildlife and aquatic life,
for domestic, agricultural, industrial, and recreational
uses, and for other beneficial uses, taking into
consideration the requirements of such uses; to provide
that no pollutant be released into any state waters
without first receiving the treatment or other corrective
action necessary to reasonably protect the legitimate and
beneficial uses of such waters; to provide for the
prevention, abatement, and control of new or existing
water pollution; and to cooperate with other states and
the federal government in carrying out these objectives.
(3) It is further declared that protection of the
quality of state waters and the prevention, abatement,
and control of water pollution are matters of statewide
concern and affected with a public interest, and the
provisions of this article are enacted in the exercise of
the police powers of this state for the purpose of
protecting the health, peace, safety, and general welfare
of the people of this state.
(4) This article and the agencies authorized
under this article shall be the final authority in the
administration of water pollution prevention, abatement,
and control. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, no department or agency of the state, and no
municipal corporation, county, or other political
subdivision, having jurisdiction over water pollution
prevention, abatement, and control, shall issue any
authorization for the discharge of pollutants into state
waters unless authorized to do so in accordance with
this article.
(5) It is further declared that the general
assembly intends that this article shall be construed to
require the development of a water quality program in
which the water quality benefits of the pollution control
measures utilized have a reasonable relationship to the
economic, environmental, energy, and public health
costs and impacts of such measures, and that before any
final action is taken, with the exception of any
enforcement action, consideration be given to the
economic reasonableness of the action. Such
consideration shall include evaluation of the benefits
derived from achieving the goals of this article and of
the economic, environmental, public health, and energy
impacts to the public and affected persons.

25-8-103. Defmitions. As used in this article, unless the
context otherwise requires:
(1) "Agricultural chemical" means any of the
following:
(a) A pesticide as defined in section 35-10-
103, C.R.S.; or
(b) A commercial fertilizer as defmed in
section 35-12-103, C.R.S.
(1.1) "Agricultural management area" means a
designated geographic area defined by the
commissioner of agriculture that includes natural or

man-made features where there is a significant risk of
contamination or pollution of groundwater from
agricultural activities conducted at or near the land
surface.
(1.2) "Agricultural management plan" means
any activity, procedure, or practice adopted as a rule by
the commissioner of agriculture pursuant to article 4 of
title 24, C.RS., in consultation with the Colorado
cooperative extension service and the water quality
control division, to prevent or remedy the introduction
of agricultural chemicals into groundwater to the extent
technically and economically practical.
(1.3) "Best management practices" means any
voluntary activity, procedure, or practice established by
the department of agriculture, in consultation with the
Colorado cooperative extension service and the water
quality control division, to prevent or remedy the
introduction of agricultural chemicals into groundwater
to the extent technically and economically practical.
(1.4) "Biosolids" means the accumulated
residual product resulting from a domestic wastewater
treatment works or other domestic sources. "Bioso1ids"
does not include grit or screenings from a wastewater
treatment works or commercial and industrial septage or
individual sewage disposal systems as regulated by
article 10 of tllis title.
(1.5) "Commission" means the water quality
control commission created by section 25-8-201.
(1.7) "Commissioner" means the
commissioner of agriculture.
(2) "Control regulation" means any regulation
promulgated by the commission pursuant to section 25-
8-205.
(3) "Discharge of pollutants" means the
introduction or addition of a pollutant into state waters.
(4) "Division" means the division of
administration of the department of public health and
environment.
(5) "Domestic wastewater treatment works"
means a system or facility for treating, neutralizing,
stabilizing, or disposing of domestic wastewater which
system or facility has a designed capacity to receive
more than two thousand gallons of domestic wastewater
per day. The term "domestic wastewater treatment
works" also includes appurtenances to such system or
facility, such as outfall sewers and pumping stations,
and to equipment related to such appurtenances. The
term "domestic wastewater treatment works" does not
include industrial wastewater treatment plants or
complexes whose primary function is the treatment of
industrial wastes, notwithstanding the fact that human
wastes generated incidentally to the industrial processes
are treated therein.
(6) "Effluent limitation" means any restriction
or prohibition established under this article or federal
law on quantities, rates, and concentrations of chenlical,
physical, biological, and other constituents which are
discharged from point sources into state waters,
including, but not limited to, standards of performance

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