BOARD02205

• Board Meeting Date: 3/10/1971
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
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dump into a stream during a rainstorm or snow
melts. industries and population. The next
worst one did surprise me - it was the Colo-
rado River basin. Here we have a lot of water
and not too much population, but it came next
in the number of stations out of compliance.
Lastly was the Arkansas which wasn't too bad.
It was rather unusual that we only had really
one station along that stream that was not in
compliance.

The parameters that we found most often,
the reason that we were out of compliance, in
26 areas we found that the fecal coliform
standards were not being complied with. In
other words, out of 205 analyses we found 81
that were not in compliance. However, in six
of these stations we only found that this
happened onc~ during the year. The next para-
meter that occurred most often was the matter
of dissolved oxygen. In eight areas we found
that this was the cause of noncompliance, and
of the eight areas we found that in five there
was only one sample during the year that was
bad. So I wouldn't call that significant
pollution. We have not received any reports
from our Game, Fish and Parks people that
there have been fish killed, so I wouldn't
suspect that it would be significant.

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In the last area that we found was the
most prevalent was with regard to pH. These
are pretty hard to crack. It is usually due
to some discharge that causes the pH to go up
or down. It is something that happens over a
long period of time. It is one of these one-
shot type of deals. Out of the six areas that
we found were out of compliance, in four it
was a one-shot deal. The man happened to be
there right at the time. In looking over the
analyses I strongly suspect that even in those
four we found the one time that it was wrong
and was an error on the part of the technician,
since during this one particular period you
could follow his trips as he went to the various