On March 3, 2011, the Statewide Roundtable Summit drew participants from all corners of Colorado to discuss how to move forward with planning for the State's water supply future. This document provides a summary of the day.
Our drinking water supplies, fishing and recreational waters are fouled by uncontrolled pollution when rainwater and snowmelt wash over city streets, parking lots, and suburban lawns and pick up toxic chemicals, disease-causing organisms (from pet waste), and dirt and trash. This problem is called urban stormwater pollution. Recent studies have found that urban stormwater rivals and in some cases exceeds sewage plants and large factories as a source of damaging pollutants. Two hundred years of unregulated, unmanaged urban stormwater have contributed to many severe public health problems and expensive natural resource losses in the United States.
This Action Guide is intended to help local public health agencies and community partners identify strategies and action steps that will assist them in collaborating with schools as partners to increase physical activity, improve nutrition and implement comprehensive health education for students.
The Water Quality Control Division (the Division) in the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is tasked with administering water quality control programs to protect waters of the state. The Division provides education, compliance assistance, permits, inspections and enforcement to promote prevention, control and abatement of water pollution. Per HB121119, the Division has been meeting since June (a total of 10 meetings) with stakeholders in the construction industry and other interested parties to develop a more responsive, streamlined process to improve compliance, reduce violations and provide timely enforcement. This report includes the results of this collaborative effort, including actions to develop more streamlined and responsive processes and recommendations for moving forward.
The purpose of this Public Participation Plan is twofold: (1) to establish ways for sharing knowledge about the chemical weapons disposal mission at Pueblo Chemical Depot; and (2) to allow members of the community surrounding the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot to communicate openly with the Department of Defense, Program Manager Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives the Army, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the systems contractor, Bechtel National, Inc. about chemical weapons stockpile disposal. This document outlines specific public participation strategies for addressing these goals and for maintaining the Public Participation Plan as a flexible, "living" document that can adapt to evolving community needs and concerns.
This manual is designed to serve as an aid to funeral directors and coroners responsible for registering certificates of death and to local offices of vital statistics in registration of certificates of death. The handbook contains background information on the importance of vital records for legal and statistical purposes, and information about the roles and responsibilities of the parties involved in the preparation and registration of vital records.
