Proposed land exchange with Bureau of Land Management would offer additional access to Blue River
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This is one reason why the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is working on new rules to limit phosphorus pollution based on the chemical’s ecological impacts. The state may soon require owners of large facilities, such as wastewater-treatment plants, to make costly upgrades to comply with new limits.
That same agency will have to decide whether to grant the ranch a discharge permit, weighing the possibility of improving trout habitat with the environmental risks. MaryAnn Nason, a spokeswoman for the state’s Water Quality Control Division, said in a statement that the state would evaluate whether the additional phosphorus protects aquatic life, drinking water and recreation, and complies with the state’s regulations on phosphorus.
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A fly-fisherman is pictured Nov. 28 on the Blue River in Silverthorne. A downstream ranch is proposing adding phosphorus to the river in an effort to improve fish habitat.
Photo by John Herrick / Aspen Journalism
ASPEN A private ranch is seeking Colorado environmental regulators’ permission to inject the Blue River with phosphorus a chemical regulated as a pollutant as part of an experiment that could help improve trout habitat at a popular High Country fishing destination.
Kremmling-based Blue Valley Ranch, owned by the billionaire philanthropist Paul Tudor Jones II, proposes beginning the project as soon as next summer on an 8-mile stretch of the river running through its 25,000-acre ranch, which is located on both sides of the river between Green Mountain Reservoir and the Colorado River.