BOARD02205

• Board Meeting Date: 3/10/1971
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

streams. and the pH always seemed to be
around 10.5. I would strongly suspect that
his meter was not calibrated. Since last
September we have had them calibrating the
meters every two weeks.

Some of the problems you have probably I~.
again read about are the Grand Lake area
with regard to the algae blooms. I know it
has been suspected that detergents are the
problem. However, I can recall, I have been
with the State Health Department now since
'49, and this was before detergents. but
even at that time on about a three-year cycle
we would get complaints from Loveland because
of the taste and odors in their water supply.
It seemed in about this three-year cycle we
would get large algae blooms. They solved
their problem by installing microstrainers
to strain out these algae. However. I don't
want to minimize the situation. I think we
do need to investigate this further. At
yesterday's commission meeting they suggested
that a followup study be made by both state
and federal people.

Another area that we are finding a lot of
algae blooms in is on the Grand Mesa. Here
again. we have a large tourist population and
it probably is contributing to the problem.

An area that has me puzzled as to the
cause is Chambers Lake. Last summer we made
a study of the poudre River which included a
study of Chambers Lake. There is no habita-
tion. no cabins or anything around there.
There is just the campground and not too
many campers in the area, yet it was full of
algae. However, phosphates do come from
natural sources also so this could be the
problem there.

I

One thing that helped us tremendously
in getting at least a domestic treatment plant
built is federal aid. and more recently state