The Colorado Water Quality Monitoring Council will
serve as a statewide collaborative body, open to all, to help achieve
effective collection, analysis and dissemination of water quality data,
and monitoring information. The Council seeks to improve the linkage
between information needs of policy and decision makers with efforts to
collect and assess data. The Council promotes effective monitoring
programs that include the components of goal identification, data
collection, analysis, storage, retrieval, and reporting/dissemination of
information. The Council shall address the full range of water quality
information, including chemical, biological, and physical characteristics
of surface and ground waters. The
Council is a non-voting body that operates through consensus.
- Provide
a forum for effective communication, cooperation, collaboration, and
documentation among individuals and organizations involved in
monitoring.
- Promote the development of
collaborative and cost effective watershed-based monitoring
strategies.
- Promote
the use of quality assurance procedures and protocols related to
sample collection, analytical methods, assessment, data management,
and dissemination
- Provide
strategic direction for a statewide structure for the acquisition,
analysis, archiving, and dissemination of water-quality information
Vic Lucero, Co-Chair
vic.lucero@cityofthornton.net
Barb Horn , Co-Chair
barb.horn@state.co.us
It seems like such a short time ago that the Monitoring Council was awarded the nonpoint source grant
to implement the vision of a state-wide data sharing network. And now our first three year grant period
has come to an end. All Project Work Plan tasks were completed thanks to funding by the Water Quality
Control Division, hard work of the Project Coordinator, and contributions of many dedicated volunteers.
The CDSN has secured NPS funding for 3 more years, Colorado Watershed Assembly is the new fiscal agent, and
Lynn Padgett of Ouray County was just hired as the new coordinator. Please click the link below to read about
the CWQMC's recent accomplishments and future goals. CWQMC Newsletter.