Water Quality Program

The Water quality program at LRCD covers several major areas:

· Water quality monitoring in the Big Laramie and Little Laramie Rivers

· Working with private individuals to implement practices to improve water quality

· Water quality education and outreach programs given to local school children and community groups

These efforts are funded in large part by a grant administered by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality and by funds from the Wyoming Department of Agriculture.

 

Watershed Planning

The Upper Crow Creek Watershed Steering Committee has finished their work on the Draft Amendment to the Crow Creek Watershed. The Amendment is intended to address water quality concerns in the upper portion of the Crow Creek watershed located above Granite and Crystal Reservoirs, specifically bacteria impairments identified by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality on Middle Crow Creek and North Branch North Fork Crow Creek.

 

An electronic copy of the Draft Amendment is available on the LCCD web site http://www.lccdnet.org or can be obtained by contacting either the Laramie County Conservation District (Cheyenne) at 772-2600 or the Laramie Rivers Conservation District (Laramie) at 721-0072.

 

Questions? EMAIL TONY HOCH!!

Last Modified on August 26, 2008

Past Special Events

As part of our outreach efforts, Tony Hoch delivered slideshow presentations reporting on our monitoring efforts,  The talk was entitled, What’s in Your Water and was held in four locations in the upper Laramie

Excerpt from presentation:

Results from recent sampling indicate the Laramie and Little Laramie Rivers are in excellent condition with respect to trace metals, nutrients, and fecal coliform bacteria.

In early November the Laramie Rivers Conservation District (LRCD) sampled the Laramie River at six locations from Wood Landing to Bosler and the Little Laramie at five locations from Corner Mountain to Howell Road.  Results from the Wyoming Department of Agriculture analytical lab indicate that most trace metals analyzed are below or near detection limits and well below EPA drinking water standards.  These metals include: beryllium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, selenium, silver, thallium, vanadium, and molybdenum.  The nutrients - ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, and phosphate were equally low.  Geometric means for fecal coliform bacteria collected over a thirty day period this past fall were also well below state standards for contact recreation for all sites sampled.