Las Animas - Bent County Library District

This guidance document is intended to inform the Division regarding the selection of analytical methods and associated practical quantitation limits (PQLs) for use in permits issued for discharges to surface waters or ground water under the Colorado Discharge Permit System (Regulation No. 61).

The bears in Bear Country grow concerned about how pollution and waste of natural resources are damaging the world around them, so they form The Earthsavers Club.

Our drinking water supplies, fishing and recreational waters are fouled by uncontrolled pollution when rainwater and snowmelt wash over city streets, parking lots, and suburban lawns and pick up toxic chemicals, disease-causing organisms (from pet waste), and dirt and trash. This problem is called urban stormwater pollution. Recent studies have found that urban stormwater rivals and in some cases exceeds sewage plants and large factories as a source...

The Agricultural Chemicals and Groundwater Protection Act took effect on July 1, 1990, and established the Groundwater Protection Program. Its purpose is to reduce agricultural chemicals' negative impacts on groundwater and the environment. Agricultural chemicals covered under this legislation include commercial fertilizers and all pesticides. The goal is to prevent groundwater contamination before it occurs by improving agricultural chemical management....

Denver air pollution is removed in part by what is called the friction-stovepipe effect, a net indraft of air into the city which rises there and then moves outward again; in part by ventilation from winds blowing across town horizontally; and to a smaller extent by vertical turbulence in the middle of the day.