HomeMy WebLinkAbout790730.tiff BOARD OF HEALTH
Weld County Health Department DAVID WERKING DOS. Greeley
FRANKLIN D. YODER, MD. MPH WILLIAM BLICK. Roggen
Direclor 1516 HOSPITAL ROAD DORIS DEFFKE. Greeley
GREELEY, COLORADO 80631 A M DOMINGUEZ. JR JD Greeley
ANNETTE M LOPEZ. Greeley
03)353-0540 FRANK MYERS. M P.H Windsor
HERSCHEL PHELPS. JR M.D..
Greeley
KATHLEEN SHAUGHNESSY. PHN. Ault•
5 April 1979 ARTHUR G WATSON. Platteville
TO: Colorado Water Quality Control Commission
Attention: Evan Dildine, Technical Secret
FROM: Franklin D. Yoder, M.D. , Director ! I
John G. Hall, M.P.H. , Director, Env onmental"Health Services {jVJ
SUBJECT: City of Northglenn Wastewater Treatment-REUSE FACILITY
This memo is written following the recent meeting of the Water Quality Control
Commission in which the above project was approved. The purpose of this memo
is to record our opposition to the Commission's decision which allows the
placement in Weld County of a wastewater treatment facility serving an out
of county municipality.
Our opposition is based on the following points which can be expanded in the
event there is opportunity for official review and/or rehearing on this matter.
A) Wastewater treatment facilities are subject to malfunction.
B) Wastewater effluent discharged into southern Weld County will limit its
reuse for domestic and/or industrial purposes.
C) The treatment facility is located near a known geologic fault.
D) The wastewater treatment facility may be in an aquifer recharge area.
E) Many viruses and chemicals including persistent pesticides can traverse
the treatment process and re-enter the local environment essentially unchanged.
F) Northglenn has no control of effluent once it leaves the treatment facility.
This department is concerned *it has insufficient sanctions to control treatment
efficacy, and the result for Weld County, while potentially beneficial in some
agricultural usage may threaten domestic and/or industrial use by Weld County
municipalities and other official county entities. It is hoped that there would
be time for more complete study of the potential effluent and its effect on Weld
County as well as Larimer-Weld Regional COG water quality plans for both surface"
and subsurface water.
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Larimer-Weld Regional COr, - Attn: Jonathan Rutstein
Frank Traylor, M.D. , Executive Director, Colorado Department ea(1,1E[iF1'
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*(and the State of Colorado)
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