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Issues identified in the Northeast Basin
Category Issues Activities/Projects
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Quality - Sewer discharge
- Non-point source pollution
- Streambank erosion
- Underground irrigation wells
- Maintaining water quality for present and future uses
- Water quality of each stream/river should be determined by a
statistically proven testing method
- Coalbed methane water impact down river - quantity and quality
- Timber, mining, oil and gas
Uses - Develop for maximum recreational use
- Boating and fishing
- Water resources uses
- Coalbed methane water impact down river - quantity and quality
- Fisheries
- Swimming
- Wildlife
- Timber, mining, oil and gas
- Flood control
Quantity - Wasting water discharging without beneficial use
- Water quantity (adjudicated rights vs. normal streamflow)
- Instream flow
- Underground irrigation wells
- Draft on aquifers, all uses
- Coalbed methane water impact down river - quantity and quality
- Timber, mining, oil and gas
- Flood control
Economic Development - Roads, new and existing
- Subdivisions
- Industrial
Conservation - Surface water
- Groundwater
- Recycling
- Research
NOTE: Revisions were made to this list per comments from BAG members at meeting held 12-8-2005