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<br />A system of voluntary monthly reporting <br />from owners or operators of municipal, indus- <br />trial, state and federal waste water treatment <br />plants was developed and put into operation in <br />January of this year. <br /> <br />A total of 42 cease and desist orders were <br />served to violators of the water pollution con- <br />trol act. One order was vacated for.,lack of <br />evidence. Two cases are now in the courts. <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />An annual one-week course for training of <br />water and waste-water plant operators was held <br />in cooperation with the University of Colorado <br />and the Wyoming Department of Public Health. <br /> <br />During the past year the Community College <br />of Denver held special training courses for <br />upgrading of operators. There are 60 enrolled <br />in the class and there is a possibility of ex- <br />panding this program to all community colleges <br />throughout the state. <br /> <br />The mobile laboratory staff conducted an <br />extensive survey of Clear Creek from the head- <br />waters to its confluence with the South Platte <br />and follow-up is being done by state and local <br />health departments of the pollution conditions <br />uncovered by this survey. <br /> <br />A survey of sugar beet plant waste and <br />tannery wastes into the waters of the state was <br />made in the northeastern part of Colorado and <br />a survey of pollution in the Cache la Poudre <br />River is presently under way. <br /> <br />Special water quality samples have been <br />run for the Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />and the Game, Fish and Parks Division of the <br />Department of Natural Resources. The Division <br />of Water Pollution Control cooperated with the <br />Water Conservation Board on a pollution study <br />at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal and have recently <br />cooperated with the Game, Fish and Parks Division <br />in a study of the proposed Georgetown Dam site <br /> <br />1 <br />