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The Water Quality Control Division implements the federal Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act in Colorado. It is responsible for water control for the state of Colorado to ensure the protection of both the environment and the public. The division enforces these laws through methods such as implementing local laws and regulations ...
Location: Pitkin and Eagle counties: Coordinates: 1]: Type: reservoir: Part of: Colorado River Basin: Primary inflows: Fryingpan River: Primary outflows: Fryingpan River: Managing agency: United States Bureau of Reclamation: Built: 1968: Surface area: 997 acres (403 ha) [2]: Water volume: 101,280 acre⋅ft (124,930,000 m 3) [2]: Surface elevation: 2,369 m (7,772 ft) [1]: Ruedi Reservoir is a ...
[a] [5] [6] The City of Black Hawk with a 2020 population of 127 is the least populous Colorado city, while the Town of Castle Rock with a 2020 population of 73,158 is the most populous Colorado town. [1] [5] At the 2020 United States Census, 4,299,942 of the 5,773,714 Colorado residents (74.47%) lived in one of the 271 municipalities active at ...
The project was to supply 491,200 acre-feet (605,900,000 m 3) of water for irrigation, industrial and municipal water supply use in Colorado and New Mexico. [citation needed] In 1978, Congress appropriated $710 million for the project but President Carter vetoed the entire appropriations bill to protest what he viewed as wasteful pork barrel ...
The largest reservoir entirely contained in Colorado is Blue Mesa Reservoir, with a capacity of 829,500 acre⋅ft (1.0 billion m 3). The total storage of the reservoirs on this list is 3,804,458 acre⋅ft (4.7 billion m 3), although not all is allocated for use by Colorado.
A senior Interior Department official who has had a key role in negotiations over the shrinking Colorado River plans to step down from the job next week. Tanya Trujillo told the department of her ...
Burgas is located some 360 kilometres (224 mi) from Sofia, 255 km (158 mi) from Plovdiv, 130 km (81 mi) from Varna, and 332 km (206 mi) from Istanbul. To the west, south and north, the city is surrounded by the Burgas Lakes: Burgas, Atanasovsko, and Mandrensko, which are home to several hundred bird species.
Transportation utilities regulated by the Colorado PUC include railroads, taxis, limousines, shuttles, charters, and sightseeing carriers. [6] The Public Utilities Commission is an independent constitutional commission which operates within the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA). [6]