WSP03032

• File Number: 8272.600.60
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program - Basin Member State Info - Utah
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 3/7/1975
• Author: Utah State Univ
• Title: Colorado Regional Assessment Study - Phase One Report for the National Commission on Water Quality - Part 1 of 2 -- Title Page - end Chapter V
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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While considerable effort and resources have been expended over

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the years to regulate and manage the Colorado River for man's

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preserving the quality of the waters. Recently, several studies have

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examined water quality problems and solutions for the Colorado River,

primarily in the area of salinity control. Concerns in this and other

areas have been given further impetus by passage of the Federal Water

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Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (PL 92-500). The stated

goal of the Act is "to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and

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biological integrity of the Nation's waters."

In contrast to other water quality studies of the Colorado River,

the focus of this study is upon describing and analyzing the impacts of

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PL 92-500 as applied and implemented in the Colorado River Basin.

As one of twelve such regional river basin assessments being conducted

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for the National Commission on Water Quality under provision of PL 92-

500, the general purpose of the study is to illustrate and elucidate the

relation between pre-existing social, economic, environmental, and

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institutional settings and the types of changes or impacts the Act is likely

to engender. By comparing the twelve regional assessments, the Com-

mission will be able to assess the geographical variations in the degree

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of impact of the Act's implementation.

The approach in meeting this overall study goal encompasses two

phases. Phase I of the research, described in this interim report, has

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