CCBWQA - Plan 2003

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Cherry Creek Watershed Plan 2003

The Cherry Creek Reservoir Watershed Plan 2003 is a strategic plan for achieving water quality goals. The Cherry Creek Reservoir Watershed Plan 2003 (Watershed Plan 2003) provides a menu of water quality management strategies developed to achieve water quality goals and objectives. The Cherry Creek Reservoir and surrounding State Park serve as an important urban recreational amenity, providing opportunities for wildlife habitat, sport fishing, boating, swimming, bicycling, bird watching, horseback riding, and hiking. Located in metropolitan Denver, this “oasis” is an urban jewel to citizens along the Front Range of Colorado.

Reservoir health and quality is generally measured as a function of a variety of chemical, physical, and biological constituents, namely, transparency (Secchi depth), phytoplankton density, chlorophyll levels, temperature, dissolved oxygen concentration, total phosphorus concentration, total nitrogen concentration, and inflow. Phosphorus and chlorophyll are key constituents of concern in the Cherry Creek Reservoir. Water quality standards have been adopted to control algal production (eutrophication), of the reservoir, through limits on phosphorus and chlorophyll concentrations.

The Watershed Plan 2003 is organized in a progressive fashion, stepping the reader through the following components of the strategic plan:

Executive Summary	Watershed Plan 2003 Executive Summary
Chapter 1	Authority mission, Watershed Plan 2003 vision, goals and objectives
Chapter 2	Watershed history and water quality trends
Chapter 3, Part 1 Part 2 Inserts	Watershed analysis of existing and projected conditions in the watershed and management strategies to reduce phosphorus loads to the reservoir
Chapter 4	Review of the Cherry Creek TMAL and Control Regulation #72 requirements
Chapter 5	Funding considerations to augment financial resources to meet water quality goals and estimated costs to implement the plan
Chapter 6	Water quality management strategies, recommendations, and identified opportunities
Chapter 7, Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4	References
A supplemental technical appendix provides supporting documentation for the watershed analysis, water/phosphorus balance scenarios, Watershed Plan programs, conceptual level costs to implement the plan, and formal comments on the July, 2003 draft Watershed Plan 2003.