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Watershed Health & Forest Health

WEBWatershed Health & Forest Health As snowpack accumulates in the mountains, it settles mostly in Rocky Mountain forests. According to the Colorado State Forest Service, more …

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Colorado health officials investigating contaminated PFAS plume …

WEBThe Colorado health department is investigating a contaminated underground plume issuing from land next to the Denver Fire Training Academy to determine whether …

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Colorado health officials, citing rise of “forever chemicals” in water

WEBColorado public health officials are set to begin regulating one of the most controversial sets of cancer-linked chemicals in water supplies later this year, citing …

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Warm Weather Brings Increased E. coli Bacteria to Colorado …

WEBHowever public health officials warn that warm weather also brings increased levels of bacteria in water ways, particularly E. coli. Maeve Conran reports as part of …

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Colorado enacts arsenal of laws to stop “forever chemicals”

WEBThe state health department is beginning to assess where firefighting foam is so that it can move forward with its PFAS takeback program and is waiting for that …

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Meeting Colorado’s Future Forest Health and Watershed Challenges

WEBThe Colorado State Forest Service estimates in its Forest Action Plan that over $4.2B is needed to restore 2.4 million acres of Colorado’s forests, with over $760 …

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Colorado launches PFAS takeback, emergency grant programs

WEBColorado health officials investigating contaminated PFAS plume near Denver fire training center March 9, 2022; $500M in new federal funds to give thousands …

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Colorado launches $25M, multi-state effort to improve soils, …

WEBSoil health can be defined as the continued capacity of soil to function as a vital living ecosystem that sustains plants, animals and people. “The key thing in that …

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After Clean Water Act setback, state to ask lawmakers for new …

WEBIf the CDPHE’s new legislative effort succeeds, it would give state health officials the authority to issue so-called dredge-and-fill permits on stream segments no …

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Fire’s Role in Watershed Health

WEBSix Feet in Solidarity – Week 6: Forest and Watershed Health April 30, 2020; Meeting Colorado’s Future Forest Health and Watershed Challenges November 29, …

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In Brief: Colorado sampling reveals dangerous chemicals in …

WEBThe sampling found four groundwater sources where PFAS measured above 70 parts per trillion (ppt), which is the limit established as a health guideline in 2016 by …

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Despite pandemic, Denver Water's lead reduction program shows …

WEBThe Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said the program is showing significant, early reductions in lead in tap water thanks to the pipe …

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Six Feet in Solidarity – Week 6: Forest and Watershed Health

WEBHealth of Colorado’s Forests from the Colorado State Forest Service. This annual report takes a regional look at forest health, offering statistics, insect and disease …

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Colorado health officials, utilities hit pause, again, on high-stakes

WEBState health officials and Colorado’s largest water utilities have agreed for a second time to hit pause on a major lawsuit over how to keep lead out of Denver’s …

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Your Values, Colorado’s Environmental Health

WEBBy Jacquelyn Murphy What do you think of when someone says “environment?” Having grown up near the ocean, water is central to my concept of …

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Soil Health and Water

WEBAired December 1, 2022. Explore the connection between soil health and water. During this webinar, we hear about the Colorado Department of Agriculture’s …

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Thousands of permits designed to protect Colorado streams are …

WEBColorado’s health department is years behind in processing special Clean Water Act permits critical to protecting water quality in the state’s streams and rivers. …

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Animas River Stakeholders Group: An Unlikely Alliance for …

WEBAs such, the group is a poster child for a key goal of the draft of Colorado’s Water Plan, which in Chapter 7 supports the development of watershed coalitions and …

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Health Hazard: Runaway Wastewater

WEBColorado health officials, utilities hit pause, again, on high-stakes lead lawsuit February 27, 2019; Colorado OKs drinking treated wastewater; now to convince the …

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Water-saving rule, passed with high hopes, goes nowhere

WEBThe Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment approved Regulation 86, as it is known, in May of 2015. It requires that counties opt into the …

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Universal Access

WEBIn fiscal year 2020, the latest data publicly released through a July 2021 congressional testimony, IHS identified more than 1,000 water and sanitation projects …

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Colorado takes emergency action to oversee wetlands, after U.S.

WEBColorado health officials hopeful after Arizona court rejects Trump-era Clean Water Act rules September 8, 2021; Colorado takes fast-track to assume oversight of …

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