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Colorado: Options for the Future
Summary
Technical report (1960-1971). Covers Colorado, Alamosa, Rio Grande Basin. Topics: population growth, water usage, consumptive uses, stream-flow uses. Agencies: Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Health, Education and Welfare Task Force on Environmental Health and Related Problems. Cites 21 external works.
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Stakeholders (75)
Agencies, organizations, and groups mentioned as actors in this document.
United States Bureau of ReclamationUnited States Department of the InteriorUnited States Geological SurveyColorado Water Conservation BoardColorado State UniversityColorado Department of HealthColorado Department of Natural ResourcesDepartment of Natural Resources
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University of ColoradoColorado Department of HighwaysThe Nature ConservancyCorps of EngineersColorado Department of AgricultureBureau of MinesColorado Geological SurveyGeneral AssemblyDenver Water BoardAtomic Energy CommissionColorado Department of Local AffairsDepartment of TransportationPublic Utilities CommissionDepartment of HealthColorado Division of PlanningHighway DepartmentBureau of Outdoor RecreationLand Use CommissionState Planning OfficeDenver Regional Council of GovernmentsDenver Research InstituteState Forest ServiceColorado Air Pollution Control CommissionState Land BoardRegional Transportation DistrictColorado Municipal LeagueAir Pollution Control CommissionColorado Cattlemen's AssociationState LegislatureDivision of Commerce and DevelopmentLegislative CouncilColorado Department of EducationAdvisory Commission on Intergovernmental RelationsState Soil Conservation BoardColorado Historical SocietyColorado Environmental CommissionTri-County Water Conservancy DistrictColorado State Board of HealthMesa CollegeGame, Fish and Parks DivisionState Board of Land CommissionersFederal Water Quality Control AdministrationColorado Highway CommissionLegislative Drafting OfficeWater Pollution Control CommissionNational Council on Environmental QualityJoint Budget CommitteeNational Council of Public Land UsersCommission on Population Growth and the American FutureAir Pollution Variance BoardSan Luis Valley Regional Development and Planning CommissionPueblo Regional Planning CommissionPueblo City-County Health DepartmentHealth, Education and Welfare Task Force on Environmental Health and Related ProblemsUtah Construction Mining CompanyCoordinator of Environmental ProblemsEnvironmental CommissionColorado Pollution Control AssociationColorado Department of Regulatory AgenciesMetropolitan Denver Sewage Disposal District Number 1Tri-County Health DepartmentWeld County Health DepartmentBoulder City-County Health DepartmentCity and County of Denver Department of PlanningBoulder Police DepartmentDelta Chamber of CommerceSouthern Colorado Economic Development District
Places (81)
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DenverFront RangeRifleBoulderBerkeleyUtahSilvertonMontanaFort CollinsColorado PlateauWyomingClear CreekGrand JunctionKentuckyGreen RiverDurangoWestern slopeContinental DivideSan Francisco RiverWhite RiverRio Grande BasinAspenPiceance BasinGreeleySan Miguel CountyColorado SpringsSan Luis ValleyWeld CountySan Juan BasinWestern Gulf BasinSacramento ValleyUinta regionsNavajo strip minePiceance Creek BasinSybarismetropolitan DenverManhattan IslandGlenwood SpringsPueblocentral PacificGarfield CountyDeltaMesa CountyMontrose CountyMontroseEnglewoodAlamosaLakewoodEvergreensouthern CaliforniaBostonOhio CityLongmontVailWest VirginiaArkansas ValleyPueblo CountyDenver metropolitan areaGlenwood CanyonCarbondaleSterlingNew York CityMeekerKremmlingeastern plainsSnowmassEastern SlopeLovelandWestminsterFour CornersMorrisonPecos basinsSouth Pacific Basin
Concepts & Topics (70)
groundwater storage dynamicsleaf water contentpopulation dynamicsstreamflowsurface runoffwater quality standardswater quality standardswater quality standards
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demographyenvironmental driverswater resourcesnonpoint source pollution densityhabitat restorationhabitat restorationsoil erosioncarrying capacitymaternal careuranium storage mechanismsair quality monitoringair quality monitoringacid mine drainagewater allocationQuality Assurance (QA)air quality monitoringenergy flux residualecological consequencesecological consequencesavalanche dynamics modelingirrigationirrigationsoil controlsurbanisationsolid-phase uraniumCommunity buildingwildlife and piscatorial culture and procreationhydropower generationConsumptive Usecrop revenueland use planningland use planningPriority Habitat Management Areasradiation impactsdetritus processinglong-range transportminingbeneficial usedetritus processingcarbon oxidationgrey watergrey waterrenewable energynoise impactsNational Environmental Policy Acttimber managementlegislative policiesClean Water Acttailing reclamationtailing reclamationproperty taxnoise impactsright to a healthful environmentopen spaceopen spaceregional planningincinerationrecyclingpublic hearingscoalnuclear stimulationoil shale development
External References Cited (21)
Works cited by this document, grouped by type.
report (8)
- Population Growth and America's Future, An Interim Report by the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future (1971)
- An Evaluation of Seven Incinerators (1970) — W. C. Achinger and L. E. Daniels
- A Model of Society (1970) — Kenneth Watt
- Resources for the Future Annual Report 1970 (1970) — Edwin S. Mills and Irving Hoch
- Future Natural Gas Requirements of the United States (1969)
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- Mineral and Water Resources of Colorado (1968)
- A Strategy for a Livable Environment (1967)
- Resources and Man
article (7)
- Buried in Affluence (1972) — Percy H. McGauhey
- Toward the Reduction of Unwanted Pregnancy (1971) — Frederich S. Jaffe
- The Denver Post (1971)
- Disposal of Solid Wastes (1971) — Philip A. Witt, Jr.
- The Water Cycle (1970) — H. I. Penman
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- The 'Perfect Contraceptive' Population (1970) — Larry Bumpass and Charles F. Westoff
- Thermal Pollution and Aquatic Life (1969) — John R. Clark
legislation (4)
- National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (1969)
- Stream Protection Act
- Senate Joint Resolution No. 23 — Senators Armstrong, Bermingham, Strickland, Wogan, Stockton, H. Fowler, Minister, Garnsey, Denny, L. Fowler, and Anderson; also Representatives Edmonds, H. McCormick, Moore, Lamm, Fuhr, Johnson, Carroll, and Showalter
- National Environmental Policy Act
book (2)
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (1968)
- Our Poisoned Planet
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