Colorado NPS Connection Index
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Agriculture
- Funding for Colorado organic ag producers (winter 2010)
- Colorado State University receives $1.2 million from USDA to further critical water resource research (fall 2009)
- New district takes holistic approach to nonpoint source issues (summer 2009)
- Institute for Livestock and the Environment's role as problem-solver (winter 2009)
- New leaf sensor talks to farmers about water needs (summer 2008)
- Passive treatment of selenium-contaminated groundwater (summer 2007)
- Boulder firm developing portable biosensor to monitor pesticides in water (summer 2006)
- Round two of soil testing looking good for Yuma producers (spring 2006)
- An innovative approach addresses nonpoint source and other pollutants (summer 2005)
- Colorado Foundation for Agriculture produces bumper crop of programs for teachers and students (spring 2005)
- Farmers in Otera County hope to improve water quality with drip irrigation (winter 2005)
- Are we there yet? Voluntary adoption of agricultural best management practices (fall 2004)
- Colorado Livestock Association's Environmental Assistance Program helping Small Animal Feeding Operations with compliance (fall 2004)
- Grape Creek Water Quality Project nears completion (fall 2004)
- Farmers in Yuma County strive to protect aquifer's water quality (summer 2004)
- Pollutant trading policy seen as a “win-win” situation (spring 2003)
- Cowboy poet Baxter Black narrates environmental management video (winter 2003)
- NPS Forum panels provide tools for improvement (fall 2002)
- A new kind of corn field (summer 2001)
Colorado Nonpoint Source Council/Alliance
- Participate in Colorado NPS Alliance planning (spring 2008)
- Join new listserv discussion about Colorado's nonpoint source issues (winter 2008)
- Colorado Nonpoint Source Council to explore new approaches (fall 2005)
- Leaders set to move state's NPS Council in new watershed-based direction (summer 2005)
- Four longtime Colorado Nonpoint Source Council members retire (spring 2005)
Colorado Nonpoint Source Program
- 319 NPS projects tapped to get total of about $1.8 million (spring 2010)
- Coyote Gulch water quality: Problem and solution (winter 2010)
- "Watershed bad boy" (winter 2010)
- AWARE Colorado program winds down (winter 2010)
- Nonpoint champions honored (fall 2009)
- Best Management Practices: The term says it all (spring 2009)
- Colorado nonpoint source project funding for 2009 (spring 2009)
- Coloradans concerned about water quality (fall 2008)
- Capacity building and nonpoint source funding process workshop (summer 2008)
- The lowdown on watershed plans (summer 2008)
- Nuts and bolts of prioritizing NPS funding (spring 2008)
- A special column by Colorado's nonpoint source coordinator (winter 2008)
- Meet Lucia Machado: Colorado's new nonpoint source management coordinator (spring 2007)
- Colorado's watershed program reorganizes (spring 2007)
- Nonpoint source outreach mini-grants (spring 2006)
- Colorado's 2005 Nonpoint Source Management Program reflects federal model (summer 2005)
- Leaders set to move state's NPS Council in new watershed-based direction (summer 2005)
- Colorado Watershed Protection Fund urging tax filers to check off water protection donation (winter 2005)
- NPS retrospective: A decade of success (spring 2004)
- Tax checkoff program supports watershed protection efforts (winter 2004)
- First NPS loan in Colorado goes to Pikes Peak highway project (summer 2003)
- New tax refund checkoff to fund watershed protection efforts (winter 2003)
- Does your community need grand and/or loan funds for water, wastewater or nonpoint source projects? (spring 2002)
- NPS funding overview and new sources to tap (spring 2002)
- Surface Water Quality Standards hearing information and materials are available (spring 2002)
- NPS vs. stormwater (fall 2001)
- New schedule for nonpoint source grant applications (summer 2001)
- Funds available for nonpoint source projects (spring 2001)
Conferences and Awards
- National water quality monitoring conference in Denver draws over 900 (spring 2010)
- Nonpoint champions honored (fall 2009)
- Tight budgets, watershed planning and more discussed at watershed conference (fall 2009)
- Award winning landscape architects feature stormwater strategies (summer 2009)
- Sustaining Colorado Watersheds Conference in October (summer 2009)
- Nonpoint source champions honored (fall 2008)
- Watershed conference presentations available online (fall 2007)
- Conference stresses collaborative watershed efforts (fall 2006)
- Hall of Fame Award recipients announced (fall 2006)
- Watersheds conference to focus on collaboration (summer 2006)
- Colorado Nonpoint Source Forum to feature workshop on behavior change (spring 2006)
- Colorado NPS Forum participants cook up watershed plans (fall 2005)
- Colorado Watershed Assembly brings diverse groups together (fall 2005)
- 2005 NPS Hall of Fame Awards (fall 2005)
- Colorado Nonpoint Source Forum provides tools for watershed planning (fall 2004)
- Colorado Watershed Assembly conference focuses on future (fall 2004)
- 2004 Nonpoint Source Hall of Fame awards (fall 2004)
- NPS Forum learns about “Tools for Your ‘Shed” (fall 2003)
- Three inducted into NPS Hall of Fame (fall 2003)
- NPS Forum charts history and looks to future (fall 2002)
- NPS Forum panels provide tools for improvement (fall 2002)
- Second annual Hall of Fame awards announced (fall 2002)
- Breakout groups add value to NPS Forum (winter 2002)
- Colorado Watershed Assembly Conference brings groups together (winter 2002)
- Information exchanged at first Colorado NPS Forum (winter 2002)
- Nonpoint source Hall of Fame (winter 2002)
- NPS information and education programs conference report (summer 2001)
Federal Nonpoint Source Program
- New tools to find NPS project information (fall 2009)
- Memo from U.S. EPA Administrator: Improving Water Quality through Transparency and Effective Enforcement of Clean Water Act Requirements (summer 2009)
- Colorado's 2005 Nonpoint Source Management Program reflects federal model (summer 2005)
- EPA announces new watershed and water quality modeling technical support center (winter 2004)
- Updated federal funding catalogue is now online (winter 2004)
- Change in EPA Region 8 Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Program (summer 2003)
- Coalition for the Upper South Platte gets $600,000 grant (spring 2003)
- Pollutant trading policy seen as a “win-win” situation (spring 2003)
- NPS vs. stormwater (fall 2001)
- Protecting threatened and endangered species through nonpoint source activities (fall 2001)
Information and Education
- Colorado programs receive awards for excellence in environmental education (spring 2010)
- Waders and water lead to watershed stewardship (spring 2010)
- Pulling strings to teach kids about water quality (winter 2010)
- AWARE Colorado program winds down (winter 2010)
- Nonpoint champions honored (fall 2009)
- First Clear Creek Watershed Festival a huge success (fall 2009)
- World Water Monitoring Day in Denver (fall 2009)
- Memo from U.S. EPA Administrator: Improving Water Quality through Transparency and Effective Enforcement of Clean Water Act Requirements (summer 2009)
- Protecting groundwater quality through well and septic system education (winter 2009)
- Stream studies are elementary for Cheyenne Creek Conservation Club (summer 2008)
- Catamount Institute turns 10 (fall 2007)
- Regional program proof that watershed collaboration works (fall 2006)
- AWARE Colorado continues to take its message on the road (summer 2006)
- Colorado Nonpoint Source Forum to feature workshop on behavior change (spring 2006)
- Beyond brochures in changing behavior (winter 2006)
- Colorado Foundation for Agriculture produces bumper crop of programs for teachers and students (spring 2005)
- New museum exhibit increases awareness of wetlands (winter 2005)
- Free “Protect Our Watersheds” flyers are available (fall 2004)
- New online tool (spring 2004)
- Weather channel and EPA partner to produce new special on polluted runoff (spring 2004)
- Colorado NPS Connection moves to the Web (winter 2004)
- Cowboy poet Baxter Black narrates environmental management video (winter 2003)
- Program aims to keep pollutants from going down the drain (winter 2003)
- AWARE Colorado addresses planning issues (fall 2002)
- NPS Forum panels provide tools for improvement (fall 2002)
- Nonpoint source pollution limits fish consumption (summer 2002)
- Surprising survey findings put water pollution ahead of other environmental issues (summer 2002)
- You can lead students to water, but can you make them think? (spring 2002)
- Colorado NPS Connection readers say (summer 2001)
- NPS information and education programs conference report (summer 2001)
Mining
- "Watershed bad boy" (winter 2010)
- Group fears uranium mining in South Park (winter 2010)
- Limiting liability of Good Samaritans who voluntarily clean up abandoned and inactive mine sites (fall 2009)
- Western Hardrock Watershed Team helps rural Colorado mining communities (fall 2008)
- Locally sponsored abandoned mine treatment project in Summit County (spring 2008)
- Potential liability for Good Samaritans cleaning up abandoned hardrock mines (winter 2008)
- Clear Creek Watershed Foundation promotes sustainable watershed management (summer 2007)
- Prison workers to help clean up (summer 2007)
- Collaboration continues to improve effects of abandoned mines (fall 2006)
- Big Five cooperative project completed (winter 2006)
- Mining remediation in the Chalk Creek Watershed (summer 2003)
- NPS Forum panels provide tools for improvement (fall 2002)
- The legacy of Willow Creek (spring 2001)
Other
- Successful use of passive biochemical reactors for selenium-contaminated groundwater in Colorado's Grand Valley (spring 2010)
- New white paper tackles recreational water quality issues (fall 2009)
- Q & A on $31 million of federal stimulus spending for Colorado's water quality issues (spring 2009)
- Sonoran Institute opens office in Glenwood Springs (spring 2009)
- StreamTeams: Community members protect local waters (spring 2009)
- New publication reports on state's groundwater protection program (fall 2008)
- Are your meetings green? (summer 2008)
- River Watch trains volunteers to monitor water quality (spring 2008)
- Standley Lake Cities get $50,000 for water quality protection planning (spring 2008)
- Creating best management practices using stream-bank stabilization concepts (spring 2008)
- Visitors dial in for audio tour of water-related issues (winter 2008)
- Pollutant trading reduces nonpoint source pollution (summer 2007)
- USGS studies of emerging contaminants in streams and groundwater: Impetus for consortium of scientists (winter 2007)
- National Water Quality Lab finds trends in emerging contaminants (winter 2007)
- Mountain stormwater management in Jefferson County (winter 2007)
- Can we really share water quality data? (fall 2006)
- Waterless washing: The wave of the future (spring 2006)
- Changing land use effects on selenium loading (winter 2006)
- Gunnison Basin and Grand Valley Selenium Task Forces at forefront of source control (fall 2005)
- Selenium reduction through wise water use (fall 2005)
- American Rivers' survey shows Coloradans concerned about water quantity and quality (summer 2005)
- Coloradans join work tour in El Salvador (summer 2005)
- Still working to keep the green line green (winter 2005)
- Cheesman area reclamation requires massive effort (fall 2003)
- Americans'River IQ' is low (winter 2002)
Profiles
- Two honored for their work to protect Colorado's water quality (spring 2009)
- Meet Lucia Machado: Colorado's new nonpoint source management coordinator (spring 2007)
- Bonie Pate named new nonpoint source project coordinator (spring 2007)
- Colorado Watershed Assembly gets new executive director (spring 2006)
- Hutchinson's career takes on nonpoint source protection (winter 2006)
- Gunderson takes helm of state's water quality control division (fall 2005)
- New Colorado Watershed Assembly executive director is wild about water (fall 2005)
- Spelunking led to career in water (winter 2004)
- Trading places: Water industry lawyer Mark Pifher settles into public service role (spring 2003)
- Who ya gonna call? NPS coordinator is in the know (spring 2002)
- Colorado NPS Coordinator Laurie Fisher views NPS management as game of persistence (fall 2001)
- Building bridges with information (summer 2001)
- Greg Parsons steps down from post (summer 2001)
- Larson is liaison for Colorado NPS program (spring 2001)
Resources
- Funding for Colorado organic ag producers (winter 2010)
- New tools to find NPS project information (fall 2009)
- Web site keeps track of water quality in Piceance Basin (summer 2009)
- A new era for the data sharing network (winter 2009)
- GreenCO's BMP expansion project promotes water conservation, water resources protection and sustainability (winter 2009)
- Program seeks input on community water needs (winter 2007)
- Survey findings of public attitudes about water issues in Colorado (winter 2007)
- Source water protection planning grants (summer 2006)
- Program offers low-cost financing for public health and water quality construction projects (summer 2006)
- Colorado Foundation for Water Education announces new Web site (winter 2006)
- NPS retrospective: A decade of success (spring 2004)
- New online tool (spring 2004)
- Office of Smart Growth issues Model Water-Efficient Landscaping Ordinance and Best Practices Manual (spring 2004)
- Watershed restoration manual series (spring 2004)
- Weather channel and EPA partner to produce new special on polluted runoff (spring 2004)
- EPA announces new watershed and water quality modeling technical support center (winter 2004)
- StEPP: A resource for nonpoint source concerns (winter 2004)
- Updated federal funding catalogue is now online (winter 2004)
- Tools for watershed planning: Part two - the nonpoint source pollution program and watershed plans (summer 2003)
- Tools for watershed planning: Part one (spring 2003)
Urban and Construction
- Award winning landscape architects feature stormwater strategies (summer 2009)
- Just a click away for LID and green infrastructure examples (spring 2009)
- Perspectives on green parking lots (spring 2009)
- Barriers to low impact development in the Keep it Clean Partnership communities (winter 2009)
- Green building alternatives to rainwater harvesting in Colorado (summer 2008)
- Tour checks out water quality and low impact design systems (summer 2008)
- Denver Botanic Gardens gets greener (spring 2008)
- Funding saga ends well for Alma (winter 2008)
- New study to help municipalities decide best planning tools to protect waterways from polluted runoff (fall 2007)
- Field trip highlights concrete examples of LID (summer 2007
- Pollutant trading reduces nonpoint source pollution (summer 2007)
- Green roof over EPA (spring 2007)
- Green infrastructure continues to catch on (spring 2007)
- AWARE Colorado continues to take its message on the road (summer 2006)
- National conference links land use decisions to water quality protection (winter 2006)
- State and construction sector partner to protect water quality (spring 2005)
- U.S. impervious cover area approaches the size of Ohio (summer 2004)
- Office of Smart Growth issues Model Water-Efficient Landscaping Ordinance and Best Practices Manual (spring 2004)
- USGS studies effects of urbanization on Front Range stream ecosystems (spring 2003)
- Boulder's trees provide NPS benefits (winter 2003)
- Program aims to keep pollutants from going down the drain (winter 2003)
- AWARE Colorado addresses planning issues (fall 2002)
- NPS Forum panels provide tools for improvement (fall 2002)
- You can lead students to water, but can you make them think? (spring 2002)
- Erosion control workshop (winter 2002)
- Getting the job done (fall 2001)
Watersheds
- Coyote Gulch water quality: Problem and solution (winter 2010)
- Pulling strings to teach kids about water quality (winter 2010)
- Nonpoint champions honored (fall 2009)
- Colorado State University receives $1.2 million from USDA to further critical water resource research (fall 2009)
- Limiting liability of Good Samaritans who voluntarily clean up abandoned and inactive mine sites (fall 2009)
- Nonpoint champions honored (fall 2009)
- First Clear Creek Watershed Festival a huge success (fall 2009)
- Tight budgets, watershed planning and more discussed at watershed conference (fall 2009)
- New white paper tackles recreational water quality issues (fall 2009)
- New district takes holistic approach to nonpoint source issues (summer 2009)
- New strategic plan to improve water quality in Fountain Creek watershed (winter 2009)
- Uncompahgre Basin watershed sustainability initiative (fall 2008)
- Vail plans voluntary stormwater protection program (fall 2008)
- The lowdown on watershed plans (summer 2008)
- Animas River Stakeholders Group honored for collaborative efforts (spring 2008)
- Colorado Watershed Protection Fund in jeopardy (winter 2008)
- Watershed conference presentations available online (fall 2007)
- Tour educates residents about Fountain Creek watershed (fall 2007)
- Clear Creek Watershed Foundation promotes sustainable watershed management (summer 2007)
- Pollutant trading reduces nonpoint source pollution (summer 2007)
- Colorado Watershed Network celebrates 10 years (spring 2007)
- Black Gore Creek tour highlights restoration activities (summer 2006)
- Colorado Watershed Assembly gets new executive director (spring 2006)
- Colorado Watershed Assembly works to strengthen its network (spring 2006)
- Leaders set to move state's NPS Council in new watershed-based direction (summer 2005)
- Technical process simplified for watershed volunteers (spring 2005)
- Colorado Watershed Protection Fund urging tax filers to check off water protection donation (winter 2005)
- Watershed groups target resource priorities (winter 2005)
- Colorado Nonpoint Source Forum provides tools for watershed planning (fall 2004)
- Colorado Watershed Assembly conference focuses on future (fall 2004)
- Free “Protect Our Watersheds” flyers are available (fall 2004)
- How healthy are our rivers and streams? (summer 2004)
- Watershed restoration manual series (spring 2004)
- Cherry Creek group builds on success (winter 2004)
- EPA announces new watershed and water quality modeling technical support center (winter 2004)
- Tax checkoff program supports watershed protection efforts (winter 2004)
- NPS Forum learns about “Tools for Your ‘Shed” (fall 2003)
- Tools for watershed planning: Part two - the nonpoint source pollution program and watershed plans (summer 2003)
- Coalition for the Upper South Platte gets $600,000 grant (spring 2003)
- Pollutant trading policy seen as a “win-win” situation (spring 2003)
- Tools for watershed planning: Part one (spring 2003)
- Trial by fire (spring 2003)
- Colorado Watershed Network: Working toward a sustainable watershed approach (winter 2003)
- New tax refund checkoff to fund watershed protection efforts (winter 2003)
- NPS Forum panels provide tools for improvement (fall 2002)
- NPS funding overview and new sources to tap (spring 2002)
- You can lead students to water, but can you make them think? (spring 2002)
- The death and rebirth of the Rio Blanco (fall 2001)