About your water.... and much more. 
BASIN is a local community service network offering 
public access to environmental information. BASIN's initial focus is on 
water in Boulder County, CO: where it comes from, 
goes to and how we use it. Select here for more about 
BASIN or see our site map. 
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The city of Boulder Wastewater treatment plant  is hosting
CU researchers advancing study on endrocine disruptors,  one of 
several relatively understudied waste water contaminants emerging as a concern in water reuse; increasingly considered for new domestic water supplies.
Keep it Clean Partnership 
(formerly known as WASH) ,
a consortium of local governments addressing storm water run off issues
has remodeled its web site
BCWI, a non-profit community group working to protect the Boulder
Creek watershed has a new www site on BASIN.
The USGS, an excellent source of water data and information, provides guidance to BASIN 
CU's Center of the American West
has released a report on Boom and Bust in the American West (PDF)
Does your community need a environmental information outreach program 
like BASIN ? BASIN is proud to provide a manual on 
"Delivering Timely Environmental Information to Your Community" (PDF format) developed by BASIN and 
the EPA EMPACT program team.
The Colorado Public Interest Research Group
(COPIRG) has released a 
report focusing on the connection between land use patterns and water resource
concerns.
A new 
Colorado Watershed Protection Fund tax refund check-off program 
initiated on 2002 tax forms will fund local efforts to protect watersheds.
Gilbert F. White Memorial Committee soliciting donations for a flood depth sculpture for Boulder's Central Park
Boulder
Creek Watershed Streamflow Map
Location
Current values
Historic values
Stream Flow
Date & Time
Mean Flow
Record length
Boulder Creek at Broadway (Central Boulder) 
11 cfs
0.31 cms
1-5-201204:45
24 cfs
20 years
Boulder Creek at 75th Street (E. of Boulder) 
16 cfs
0.45 cms
01-05-201204:15
38 cfs
25 years
Saint Vrain Creek (E. of Longmont)
69 cfs
1.95 cms
01-05-201204:00
52 cfs
33 years
USGS provisional data, in cubic feet per second
(cfs) and cubic meters per second (cms). For more on flow, see the
BASIN Watershed theme.
Current Metro Air Quality Status
Current EPA/NOAAUV Exposure Index
2  Minimal
South Platte Basin Snow Pack Water Equivalent
77% (of 30 yr average)
Boulder Creek Watershed Snowpack reports from Niwot Ridge
Spatial Data Catalog
BASIN provides a variety of real-time data, maps, and live cameras.
Weather
Stream Flow
Water Quality 
Snow Pack
Online Cameras
Check out the BASIN Calendar of 
local events relating to water and the environment.
The BASIN 2002 drought information 
center documents how Front Range communities are depend