David Beaujon
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
This memorandum provides information about Colorado's allotment of Animas-La Plata Project water. It describes state and federal laws that regulates how this water may be used, and it identifies appropriations made by the Colorado General Assembly to purchase this water.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
This memorandum summarizes major state and federal water quality control policies pertaining to nutrients; describes the major provisions of the new Section 17 of Regulation 31 that establishes interim numeric values for phosphorus, nitrogen and chlorophyll; describes the new Regulation 85 that establishes numerical effluent limitations for domestic wastewater treatment plants and other wastewater dischargers; summarizes the rule review process of...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
This memorandum summarizes federal and Colorado regulations concerning pharmaceutical waste disposal and describes a voluntary pharmaceutical collection program in Colorado. It also summarizes recent Illinois legislation concerning the collection of pharmaceutical waste.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Approximately 80 percent of the rain and snow that falls in the state falls west of the Continental Divide; however, most of the state's population and irrigated agriculture is on the eastern side. Consequently, water users have been diverting water from west of the continental divide to the eastern plains. There are 39 transbasin diversions in Colorado including 25 diversions that move water from the Colorado River Basin to eastern plains of Colorado....
Author
Series
Issue brief volume 06-13
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
This issue brief describes the factors behind the growing number of artificial whitewater parks and summarizes Colorado's water law that regulates these facilities.