WHEREAS the Clean Water Act requires and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has promulgated rules to address control and mitigation of non-point source pollution, and
WHEREAS the EPA continues to propose new and more stringent regulations on water quality, including domestic drinking water, that are restrictive, costly, and in some cases seemingly based on an ability to measure smaller and smaller concentrations, and not on human or environmental health and safety, and
WHEREAS such regulations may not be based upon scientific evidence of health problems, and many water supplies may already be reasonably safe and healthy, and
WHEREAS the cost of implementing such regulations is increasingly expensive, especially to rural communities, and
WHEREAS there have many times been inadequate cost-benefit analyses of the proposed regulations,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that CLUB 20 opposes promulgation and enforcement of new water quality regulations by the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment and the Environmental Protection Agency without adequate peer-reviewed science verifying that the regulations are both required and efficacious, or without complete cost-benefit analysis, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Club 20 insists adequate funding accompany any new or stricter water quality regulations.
Incorporates the following resolutions:
- WA-00-1, Total Maximum Daily Load
- WA-00-5, Non-Point Source Pollution Control & Mitigation, Statewide Fund for
Adopted 9/10/1992
Amended 4/1/2011
Amended 9/9/2016
Amended 4/12/2019