Analysis of total maximum daily load (TMDL) for nitrate in the urban region of the South Platte River, with emphasis on segment 14

Lewis, William M.

Saunders, James F.

Colorado. Department of Public Health and Environment. Water Quality Control Division.

2003

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control Division

Denver, Colo.

Revised: May 16, 2003

This report summarizes the results of an analysis of nitrate concentrations in the South Platte River between Chatfield Dam and the Burlington Ditch headgate (Upper South Platte Segments 6c and 14). The analysis is applicable to present and future conditions. Because the context for the analysis is a TMDL for nitrate, all influences on loads and concentrations of nitrate are taken into account as fully as possible on the basis of monitoring data, effluent characteristics, or other pertinent information. The focus of the analysis is on low-flow conditions because critical concentrations of nitrate coincide with minimum availability of dilution for point-source discharges. For this reason, identification of critical low flows is a major component of the analysis.

prepared for: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control Division ; prepared by William M. Lewis, Jr. [and] James F. Saunders, III.
"Date of Preparation: March 3, 2000, Revised: October 8, 2001, Revised: May 16, 2003."
Online resource; title from PDF cover (viewed May 2016)

Water--Nitrogen content
Nitrogen content
Drinking water--Contamination
Contamination

Colorado

1 online resource (56 pages) : illustrations

eng

HE17/20.2/N63/2003/INTERNET

http://hdl.handle.net/11629/co:21837

949774569

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