COLORADO MONITORING FRAMEWORK (CMF)

The Colorado Monitoring Framework (CMF) is a nonprofit organization formed with the objective of creating a collaborative process to comply with nutrient water quality regulations adopted by the Colorado Water Quality Control Commission in 2012 in priority basins, e.g., the South Platte and Arkansas. Regulation 85, the Nutrient Management Control Regulation, contains requirements for point source dischargers to collect and report effluent and in-stream nutrient data to the Water Quality Control Division. However, the CMF envisions that this information, coupled with relevant additional information collected in a collaborative manner will be critical for the development of site-specific nutrient standards as well as tracking water quality improvements over time. As such, cooperative water quality data management and analysis activities are also high priority tasks.

Primary location: Lakewood United States