Cache la Poudre River Water Quality Monitoring ProgramCelebrating environmental leadership
Cache la Poudre River at the mouth of the canyon. The Cache la Poudre Water Quality Monitoring Program is a part of EPA’s most comprehensive environmental leadership program. It joins together the cities of Fort Collins and Greeley, with the Town of Windsor, the Boxelder and South Fort Collins Sanitation Districts and Kodak Colorado Division in an on-going collaborative effort to monitor and protect the Cache la Poudre River. The integrated monitoring program now supports 10 sampling sites on the river from Fort Collins downstream to Greeley. Colorado State University provides the program’s expertise in field sampling and data collection for fish and benthic (bottom dwelling) invertebrates. Chemical, physical and biological monitoring data from participating agencies will be shared worldwide on the Web via the Colorado Data Sharing Network. A ceremonial signing of the Cache la Poudre Water Quality Monitoring Agreement, took place in October 2007, at the Poudre Learning Center in Greeley. It included poster displays describing details of the river sampling sites, test parameters and sampling frequencies. Last May, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Division received an award of special recognition for supporting the EPA’s Performance Track program for the stakeholders on the lower Cache la Poudre River.
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