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Board of Water Works.
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of Pueblo,
Colorado
319 West Fourth Street • P.O. Box 400 • Pueblo, Colorado 81002 • 584-0250
November 29, 1988
HAND DELIVERED
Mr. Carl _Genova
Arkansas Valley Ditch Association 33032 Road S
Pueblo, CO
81006
Carl:Attached is the information concerning Non-Point Source Pollution which I called you about last week. As you can see from this notice, the meetings are being referred to as. "public information meetings". It states that the Non-Point Source Pollution
Management Program will be explained in full and questions will be answered. Input on the proposed program will be solicited from concerned citizens and groups. The Water Quality Control
Commission will be asked to adopt the management plan at its January meeting.
Carl, I phoned you once I received this notice because I thought some of the AVDA members might be interested. I spoke with Greg Parsons and asked if he had sent notices to any of the canal companies in the Arkansas Valley. He said he did not know about individual companies but that it would be in all of the papers across the state. I just thought that sometimes everyone does not read the paper and especially the legal notices section.
I do not know how familiar you are with this Non-Point Source Management Plan but let me share a little bit of what I know .about it with you. Section 319 of the Federal Clean Water Act
deals with Non-Point Source Pollution. It directs each state to complete a Non-Point Source Pollution Assessment Report and
submit it to the EPA. After this, each state is to put together a Non-Point Source Pollution 'management Plan. The
management
plan has been compiled and will be explained at this public information meeting on December 9.
The plan was put together by the Non-Point Source Pollution Task Force. A list cf the members of this task force is also
attached. The Clean Water Act requires that each plan include four sections. Those sections are; urban and construction runoff, abandoned/inactive mine drainage, agricultural runoff,
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and hydrologic modification. All of the sections except
hydrologic modification have been completed, bound, and it sounds like they are about ready to be accepted as the states Non-Point Source Management Plan. The section on hydrologic modification will be added to the plan once discussions on it are completed. It is my understanding that the plan consists primarily of
suggestions of best management practices (BP's). I have attached several copies of the agricultural runoff section of the plan to this letter for your information.
Carl, I did not know if this is something that would affect farmers in the Arkansas Valley or not. Pueblo is primarily
concerned with the hydrologic modification section and we are attending those subcommittee meetings. If I can answer any other questions for you, please do not hesitate to give me.a call at your convenience.
Sincerely,
Roger L. "Bud" O'Hara
Division Manager Water Resources
cc: Alan C. Hamel - w/o Attachments Pete J. Juba - w/o Attachments
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