Protecting Water Quality in Chatfield’s Watershed, Located Southwest of Denver, Colorado, USA
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Welcome to Chatfield Watershed Authority
 

The Chatfield Watershed Authority promotes protection of water quality in the Chatfield Watershed for recreation, fisheries, drinking water supplies, and other beneficial uses. To protect these beneficial uses, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control Commission, adopted Regulation #73.  This regulation includes limits on the amount of phosphorus that can get into the reservoir.  The number one source of phosphorus to Chatfield Reservoir is from nonpoint sources (NPS). Nonpoint sources of nutrients, such as phosphorus, come from many diffuse sources. NPS pollution is caused by rainfall or snowmelt moving over and through the ground. As the runoff moves, it picks up and carries away natural and human-made pollutants, finally depositing them into lakes, rivers, wetlands, coastal waters, and even our underground sources of drinking water.

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The State of Colorado, Department of Public Health and Environment regulates all discharges into water bodies in Colorado.
www.cdphe.state.co.us

The Water Quality Control Division is the specific section of the Department of Health that regulates water quality. www.cdphe.state.co.us/wq/index.html

The decision-making body for water quality in the state is the Water Quality Control Commission.  
www.cdphe.state.co.us/op/wqcc/index.html
Many members of the Chatfield Watershed Authority have their own web sites.
·       City of Littleton, www.littletongov.org
·       Douglas County, www.douglas.co.us
·       Jefferson County, www.co.jefferson.co.us
·       Roxborough Water and Sanitation District, www.roxwater.org
·       Town of Castle Rock, www.crgov.com
·       Perry Park Water and Sanitation District, www.ppwsd.org
·       Centennial Water and Sanitation District, www.highlandsranch.org/06_wsan/06_wsan_home.html
·       Town of Larkspur, www.townoflarkspur.org
·       Castle Pines Metropolitan District, www.castlepinesmetro.com
·       Denver Water, www.denverwater.org
·       Dominion Water and Sanitation District, www.dominionwsd.com
·       Louviers Water and Sanitation District, www.louvierswsd.org
·       Ponderosa Retreat and Conference Center, www.visitponderosa.com
·       Sacred Heart Retreat, www.sacredheartretreat.org
·       Ken Caryl Ranch Masters Association, www.ken-carylranch.org

Other entities are Associate Members of the Chatfield Watershed Authority.  
·       City of Aurora, www.auroragov.org/AuroraGov/index.htm
·       Tri-County Health Department, www.tchd.org
·       Coalition for the Upper South Platte, www.uppersouthplatte.org
·       Colorado Division of Wildlife, wildlife.state.co.us/Pages/Home.aspx
·       Colorado State Parks, www.parks.state.co.us/Pages/HomePage.aspx
·       U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, www.usace.army.mil/Pages/default.aspx
·       Colorado Water Conservation Board, cwcb.state.co.us/Pages/CWCBHome.aspx

There are several other Watershed Authorities in the Denver Metro Region.
·       The Cherry Creek Basin Water Quality Association, www.cherrycreekbasin.org
·       The Bear Creek Watershed Authority, www.bearcreekwatershed.org/
·       The South Platte Coalition for Urban River Evaluation (SPCURE), www.spcure.org/about.shtml

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