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Article: BEAR CREEK 'IMPAIRED' EPA PUTS SECTION OF JEFFCO STREAM ON TROUBLED-WATERS LIST.(News)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- June 9, 2005
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Byline: Todd Hartman, Rocky Mountain News
A popular creek running through much of western Jefferson County is the latest addition to Colorado's list of troubled waters.
The Environmental Protection Agency, overruling state health officials, last week designated an 11-mile stretch of Bear Creek as an "impaired" waterway because of conditions harmful to the creek's fishery.
Environmentalists and some residents cheered the decision, saying it will require state regulators to improve conditions for fish. Specifically, the EPA said, excessively high water temperatures need to come down.
"Hopefully this will prevent the trout deaths that we ...