The Cherry Creek Reservoir Watershed Plan is a strategic plan for achieving water quality goals. The Cherry Creek Reservoir Watershed Plan (Watershed Plan ) 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.

This document is currently under review and is only available in draft form. Please contact Chuck Reid at 303.779.4525 for a copy.