The Bear Creek Watershed Association is a local water quality management agency and watershed association for the Bear Creek Watershed.  The Association implements the State of Colorado Bear Creek Reservoir Control Regulation (Regulation #74).  The control regulation assures watershed point and nonpoint source water quality compliance consistent with adopted Colorado stream standards and classifications. 

What's New 2012 and Association Program Updates

31 Years of Watershed Service

• Association Board Meets Second Wednesday of Month and Technical Review Session (TRS) meets on 3rd Wednesday (Excluding Holidays); Meetings held at Evergreen Metropolitan District Offices, Evergreen, Colorado or at Bear Creek Park Visitor Center
• Fire Assessment Report
• EPA Green Infrastructure Project
• Evergreen Earthday Poster
• 2012 Meeting and Monitoring Schedule
• 2012 Membership
• 2012 Water Quality Monitoring Plan
• 2011 Coyote Gulch Data Summary and Association Trade Credit
• 2011 Benthic Macroinvertebrate Spreadsheet
• 2011 Phytoplankton Data
• New Postings Under Rulemaking Hearings for 2012 303(d) list, Regulations #35 and #85
• 2012 303(d) Listings in Watershed

  WBID	Segment Description	Portion	Colorado M & E Parameter(s)	Clean Water Act Section 303(d) Impairment	303(d) Priority
  COSPBE01a	Mainstem of Bear Creek from the boundary of the Mt. Evans Wilderness area to the inlet of Evergreen Lake.	Witter Gulch to inlet of Evergreen Lake		Temperature, Aquatic Life (provisional)	H
  COSPBE01c	Bear Creek Reservoir	all		Chl-a, phosphorus	H
  COSPBE01e	Mainstem of Bear Creek from the outlet of Evergreen Lake to the Harriman Ditch.		Aquatic Life
  COSPBE01e	Mainstem of Bear Creek from the outlet of Evergreen Lake to the Harriman Ditch.	From the outlet of Evergreen Lake to Kerr/Swede Gulch		Temperature	H
  COSPBE02	Bear Creek below Bear Creek Reservoir to South Platte River	Below Kipling Parkway (CO 390)	Aquatic Life	E. coli (May-Oct)	H
  COSPBE05	Swede, Kerr, Sawmill, Troublesome and Cold Springs Gulches and Cub Creek	Swede/Kerr Gulch		E. coli	L

• Monthly Reservoir and Watershed Data Postings on Monitoring Page
• Bear Creek Watershed Map
• Photo Log Bear Tracks Site 38b
• Photo Log Summit Lake Pollution Problem