Explore this new tool today!
The Water Quality Control Division (division) is pleased to announce a new source water tool to raise awareness of public drinking water protection. The division has coordinated with participating public water providers to display public versions of their source water protection plans. This allows federal, state, and local governments, planning agencies, stakeholders and the general public to more readily access the public water system’s exceptional planning efforts. The protection tool is designed to generally display the designated drinking water protection areas for public water systems and also provide the ability to view and download their detailed source water protection plan.
Click here to access Colorado’s Source Water Protection Plan Data Viewer.
How to use the viewer
The Source Water Protection Planning Viewer displays an interactive symbol of completed protection plans for public water systems (PWS) in the state of Colorado. The red symbols represent public water systems that have completed a protection plan, but are not directly available on this website. The division suggests that you reach out directly to that public water system if you want more information on their planning efforts. The blue symbols represent public water systems that have provided the protection planning area and plans for the interactive tool.
Selecting the symbols on the map will provide general information about the protection planning status and public water system. The blue symbols will have a direct link to the source water protection plan available for downloading.
There are two tool buttons on the upper left side of the viewer that will allow you to search for publicly available plans and also view drinking water protection planning boundaries on the map application. The viewer allows for various search functions by water system name or county. The viewer is an ArcGIS based viewer and various data layers (ex: layer list) can be accessed utilizing the tool in the upper right portion of the viewer. Additional data layers include: streams & lakes segmentation, Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) boundaries, county boundaries and Bureau of Land Management Agency coverage showing the various federal, state, public and privately controlled lands in the state.
Source Water Assessment and Protection is here for you
The Division strongly supports the SWAP program and is committed to working with public water systems, local governments, and federal/state agencies to implement strategies to protect one of our most valuable resources; “Colorado’s Drinking Water!”
If you are a public water system that is interested in protection planning or have completed a protection plan and would like to post a public version of your plan on the website, please email us at cdphe.wqswap@state.co.us help to complete those processes.
