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A Brief History of the Colorado Water Quality Monitoring Council:
 2000 - CWQMC was organized.
Januray 2001 - First data swap providing an inventory of sampling activities throughout the Clear Creek watershed and a small section of the South Platte River.
2002 - CWQMC website created.
April 2002 - Second data swap for the South Platte River.
2003 - Grant proposal submitted to EPA for the development of a web-based map displaying water quality sampling information in Colorado.
December 2003 - Awarded $15,000 for the web-based map project.
2004 - Submittal of a Non Point Source grant proposal to collect, organize and upload Non-Point Source legacy data to STORET.
December 2004 - Awarded Non-Point Source grant. The Non-Point Source grant and the 2003 EPA grant begin the work that was to become the Colorado Data Sharing Network (CDSN) project.
2005 - the Colorado Watershed Network is chosen by CWQMC as the general administrative contractor for the CDSN project (web-based interactive map and STORET database). Gold Systems is chosen by CWQMC as a subcontractor.
2006 - Outreach for the CDSN project begins.
2007 - CWQMC is re-engineered, and a new charter is created to meet new our new goals.
September 2008 - First Non-Point Source grant for the CDSN project is completed.
October 2008 - CDSN receives a new 3-year Non-Point Source Grant
October 2008 - the Colorado Watershed Assembly is chosen by CWQMC as the fiscal agent for the CDSN project. Gold Systems remains as the database host and subcontractor.
January 2009 - CWQMC and the CDSN project get two new co-coordinators based out of Ridgway, Colorado. Work is begun on major enhancements to the CDSN project map, overseeing the transition of the database from STORET to WQX, redesigning the CWQMC and CDSN web sites, and furthering the mission of CWQMC.
October 2009 - The CDSN project completes the major transition to the new AWQMS/WQX data management system. Several presentations follow.
January 2010- Work on the new Google Earth powered mapping utility for the CDSN project begins!
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