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About the Colorado Water Quality Monitoring Council
Who We Are:
The Colorado Water Quality Monitoring Council serves as a statewide collaborative body, open to all, to help achieve effective goal identification, data collection, data analysis, data retrieval, and reporting/dissemination of water quality data, and monitoring information.
The Council addresses the full range of water quality information, including chemical, biological, and physical characteristics of surface and ground waters.
The Council is a non-voting body that operates through consensus.
What we do:
 Provide a forum for effective communication, cooperation, collaboration, and documentation among individuals and organizations involved in monitoring.
Promote the development of collaborative and cost effective watershed-based monitoring strategies.
Promote the use of quality assurance procedures and protocols related to sample collection, analytical methods, assessment, data management, and dissemination.
Provide strategic direction for a statewide structure for the acquisition, analysis, archiving, and dissemination of water-quality information and data.
How will being an active member and contributor to the Colorado Water Quality Monitoring Council and the Colorado Data Sharing Network project benefit my organization?
Water & Wastewater Utilities
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Increase knowledge of your water source quality by utilizing DSN for decision making
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Water quality data available to share with the public
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Increase collaboration with upstream and downstream stakeholders
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Share monitoring costs and efforts with other entities
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Provide monitoring data to the state in usable normalized STORET format
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Provide a mechanism to voice water quality issues
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Generate good will with the public – be listed as a partner
Conservation/Watershed Groups
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Get a better understanding of what is happening in your watershed - Identify other data generators and projects in your region
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Increase collaboration between stakeholders by sharing data and identifying data gaps
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Have a system to manage data from multiple sources and projects
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Leverage resources spent on data management consultants
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Provide the public with a means to access water quality data easily and
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Provide a mechanism to voice water quality issues with local and state agencies
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Provide a valuable tool to help support a forum for watershed protection efforts
Consultants
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Reduce time and client cost through on-line shared water quality data
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Spend resources to analyze rather than gather and format data
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Spend less time filling in data gaps
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Better understand what is happening with water quality in the state
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All data is normalized to reduce data evaluation time and increase efficiency of sharing data with state and federal agencies
Industry
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Better understand water quality context in which industry is operating
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Know what is happening in your watershed to help reduce monitoring costs
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Know what is happening downstream to better determine discharge effects to downstream stakeholders
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Increase collaboration with other watershed stakeholders
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Facilitate data gathering for permit applications
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Provide more efficient regulatory data reporting
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Establish a mechanism to help voice water quality issues with regulatory agencies
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Generate good will with the public – have your name listed as a partner
State/Federal Agencies
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Increase access to water quality data for a better understanding of the status of water quality in the state
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Evaluate water quality conditions to facilitate budgetary and agency priorities
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Improve data sharing with the public and other agencies through a normalized data format
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Reduce resources required for “data calls”
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Leverage water quality data management resources
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Increase communications and collaboration with the regulated community, other government agencies and the public
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Facilitate a forum for effectively communicating water quality issues
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Generate good will with the public – be listed as a partner
Private Citizen
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Understand what is happening with the water quality of your watershed
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Support collaboration with water quality monitoring entities and other stakeholders
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Provide a forum to support local water quality efforts
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