The overall purpose of the report is to provide further details on this initial set of strategies. This report is a compilation of a series of technical memorandums that were developed to summarize technical work that was completed for the CWCB under various task orders. The objectives of the technical memorandums that have been compiled in this report are: Identify potential scenarios for Colorado's water supply future and associated; Describe the M&I conservation strategy, agricultural transfer strategy, and new supply development strategy; Present reconnaissance level cost estimates for the agriculture transfer and new supply development strategies; Summarize the benefits, impacts, and opportunities of each strategy.
The Colorado Department of Health and Environment (CDPHE) Water Quality Control Division is developing an approach to manage nutrients in Colorado waters. The primary driver for this effort has been an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) directive to reduce nutrients in waters under jurisdiction of the federal Clean Water Act (CWA). The Division's proposal to control the discharge of nutrients relies largely on a technology-based control regulation that would establish effluent limits for both total phosphorus (TP) and total inorganic nitrogen (TIN) for many domestic and some nondomestic wastewater treatment facilities that become subject to the control regulation will have to invest in capital improvements and ongoing operation and maintenance (O&M) costs.
