Chatfield Reservoir is more than just a beautiful place.
It provides safety from flooding, recreational activities, supports several species of birds, wildlife and aquatics, and stores drinking water supply for local communities. You can help preserve Chatfield now by helping keep the Chatfield watershed clean. The Chatfield Watershed Authority promotes the protection of water quality in the Chatfield Watershed for recreation, fisheries, drinking water supplies, and other beneficial uses.
To protect these beneficial uses, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control Commission, adopted Regulation #73. This regulation includes limits on the amount of phosphorus that can get into the reservoir. The number one source of phosphorus to Chatfield Reservoir is from nonpoint sources (NPS). Nonpoint sources of nutrients, such as phosphorus, come from many diffuse sources. NPS pollution is caused by rainfall or snowmelt moving over and through the ground. As the runoff moves, it picks up and carries away natural and human-made pollutants, finally depositing them into lakes, rivers, wetlands, coastal waters, and even our underground sources of drinking water.
SB23-267 - The Chatfield State Park Water Quality Fee signed into law
Noxious Weed A and B-List Species Grant
The Douglas County Conservation District has opportunities for Douglas County residents to apply for our Cost-Share Grant in the pursuit of controlling noxious weeds. This cost-share grant will assist with a 50% cost share up to $500.00 per property for chemical and biological control methods for weeds on the Colorado State Noxious Weed “A” and “B” list species. Details are on the grant application. Email our District Manager with any questions to Admin@DouglasConserves.org or call the Franktown office at (303) 218 – 2622.
Fuels Mitigation Grant
The Douglas County Conservation District offers a Fire Mitigation Cost – Share Grant to residents of Douglas County, Colorado. For more information visit our website Douglas Conserves. Feel free to call our Franktown office to reach the District Manager at (303) 218 – 2622 or EMail to Admin@DouglasConserves.org. Thank you for your interest.
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More than 200 acres preserved forever in Douglas County real estate trade
Wildlife habitat near Roxborough State Park expanded thanks to partnership.
Posted on September 27, 2023 2023 DC Outdoors News and Events
The trade, involving Douglas County, Sterling Ranch Acquisitions and American chemical company, Chemours FC, LLC, results in the preservation of 204 acres of open space via a conservation easement. Conservation easements are voluntary legal agreements between a landowner and public entity that forever restricts how the land may be used, specifically for the purpose of conservation.