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Show I ... I ( IX SOUTHERN UTAH WATER QUALITY PROGRAM. Keith Welch, and Jerry Hansen, left, of Vaughn Hansen Associates Consultants ' and Engineers, take biological water samples from Coal Creek for the "208" area wide planning plan-ning process presently underway in Utah's - - - water quality program. Gordon Slack, City Councilor, and Paul Edmunds, Resource Conservation Con-servation Development Project Representative, right, watch the process that will be performed on all water systems in Utah. Quality Control of Utah's water conducted under "208" program water pollution from point sources (pipes and conduits) and nonpoint sources (stormwater runoff, erosion at construction sties, seepage of chemicals from mines, etc.) The 208 project staffs will define methods of control, management and enforcement. The final step will be local adoption, under stated public procedures, of an area program to be submitted for state approval ap-proval and submission to the Environment Protection Agency within two years of the date each 208 project began - no later than November 1, 1978. The "208" areawide planning process presently underway is an important phase of Utah's water quality program. It is designed to identify and bring under control those remaining sources of water pollution still largely unad-dressed unad-dressed in Utah. Biological sample studies for the "208" areawide planning process for Utah's water quality program were taken at Coal Creek by Keith Welch and Jerry Hansen, Vaughn Hansen Associates Consultants and Engineers. The program title, "208" is the number of the authorizing section sec-tion in" the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Amendments Amend-ments of 1972-Public Law 92-500. Most water samples are for Chemical analysis of the water, which have, been tested at Southern Utah State College Chemistry lab. The Biological samples will be sent to Brigham Young University for analysis. Hansen and Welch use a "dissolved oxygen meter" to test the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water. This device also takes the water temperature. The biological tests will give information on the possibility of aquatic life living in Coal Creek. Four different casts are taken -- we can tell a lot about the chemical quality of the water by a biological study sample, stated Welch. The studies are being performed per-formed on all water systems in the counties of Beaver, Iron, Washington, Kane, and Garfield. Utah's 1983 goal is to bring all state waters to a level of quality making them fit for aquatic life and recreational contact. The biological , studies of Hansen and Welch are expected to be completed by May of 1977, stated Paul Edmunds, Resource Conservation Development Project Representative, and Gordon Slack, City Councler. The 208 project teams will identify remaining sources of |
