Code of Colorado Regulations
1000 - Department of Public Health and Environment
1002 - Water Quality Control Commission (1002 Series)
5 CCR 1002-38 - REGULATION NO. 38 - CLASSIFICATIONS AND NUMERIC STANDARDS SOUTH PLATTE RIVER BASIN LARAMIE RIVER BASIN REPUBLICAN RIVER BASIN SMOKY HILL RIVER BASIN
Appendix 1 - Stream Classifications and Water Quality Standards Tables
Effective 04/30/2024
Abbreviations and Acronyms
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Aq |
= Aquatic |
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°C |
= degrees Celsius |
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CL |
= cold lake temperature tier |
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CLL |
= cold large lake temperature tier |
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CS-I |
= cold stream temperature tier one |
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CS-II |
= cold stream temperature tier two |
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D.O. |
= dissolved oxygen |
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DM |
= daily maximum temperature |
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DUWS |
= direct use water supply |
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E. coli |
= Escherichia coli |
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EQ |
= existing quality |
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mg/L |
= milligrams per liter |
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mg/m2 |
= milligrams per square meter |
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mL |
= milliliter |
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MWAT |
= maximum weekly average temperature |
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OW |
= outstanding waters |
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SSE |
= site-specific equation |
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T |
= total recoverable |
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t |
= total |
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tr |
= trout |
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TVS |
= table value standard |
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µg/L |
= micrograms per liter |
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UP |
= use-protected |
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ws |
= water supply |
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WS-I |
= warm stream temperature tier one |
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WS-II |
= warm stream temperature tier two |
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WS-III |
= warm stream temperature tier three |
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WL |
= warm lake temperature tier |
REGULATION #38 STREAM CLASSIFICATIONS and WATER QUALITY STANDARDS
Upper South Platte River Basin
REGULATION #38 STREAM CLASSIFICATIONS and WATER QUALITY STANDARDS
Cherry Creek Basin
REGULATION #38 STREAM CLASSIFICATIONS and WATER QUALITY STANDARDS
Bear Creek Basin
REGULATION #38 STREAM CLASSIFICATIONS and WATER QUALITY STANDARDS
Clear Creek Basin
REGULATION #38 STREAM CLASSIFICATIONS and WATER QUALITY STANDARDS
Big Dry Creek Basin
REGULATION #38 STREAM CLASSIFICATIONS and WATER QUALITY STANDARDS
Boulder Creek Basin
REGULATION #38 STREAM CLASSIFICATIONS and WATER QUALITY STANDARDS
St. Vrain Creek Basin
REGULATION #38 STREAM CLASSIFICATIONS and WATER QUALITY STANDARDS
Middle South Platte River Basin
REGULATION #38 STREAM CLASSIFICATIONS and WATER QUALITY STANDARDS
Big Thompson River Basin
REGULATION #38 STREAM CLASSIFICATIONS and WATER QUALITY STANDARDS
Cache La Poudre River Basin
REGULATION #38 STREAM CLASSIFICATIONS and WATER QUALITY STANDARDS
Laramie River Basin
REGULATION #38 STREAM CLASSIFICATIONS and WATER QUALITY STANDARDS
Lower South Platte River Basin
REGULATION #38 STREAM CLASSIFICATIONS and WATER QUALITY STANDARDS
Republican River Basin
All metals are dissolved unless otherwise noted.
T = total recoverable
t = total
tr = trout
D.O. = dissolved oxygen
DM = daily maximum
MWAT = maximum weekly average temperature
See 38.6 for further details on applied standards.
STREAM CLASSIFICATIONS and WATER QUALITY STANDARDS - FOOTNOTES
(A) Whenever a range of standards is listed and referenced to tinis footnote, tine first number in tine range is a strictly health-based value, based on the Commission's established methodology for human health-based standards. The second number in the range is a maximum contaminant level, established under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act that has been determined to be an acceptable level of this chemical in public water supplies, taking treatability and laboratory detection limits into account. Control requirements, such as discharge permit effluent limitations, shall be established using the first number in the range as the ambient water quality target, provided that no effluent limitation shall require an "end-of-pipe" discharge level more restrictive than the second number in the range. Water bodies will be considered in attainment of this standard, and not included on the Section 303(d) List, so long as the existing ambient quality does not exceed the second number in the range.
(B) Assessment of adequate refuge shall rely on the Cold Large Lake table value temperature criterion and applicable dissolved oxygen standard rather than the site-specific temperature standard.
