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Show Salt Lake City Watershed Management Plan ' 99 ( EPA) is responsible for administering two important statutes affecting the watersheds: the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act. These two acts are representative of primacy legislation. States, upon approval of programs consistent with the statutes, are given principal responsibility for implementing the provisions of the acts. Utah, through the Department of Environmental Quality ( DEQ), has primacy over the implementation of the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act. DEQ has established the state water standards that the Health Department administers in Salt Lake City's watersheds. The provisions of the City- County Clean Water Act most applicable to the plan area are the anti- degradation standards. The anti- degradation standards seek to protect classified pristine waters from water quality degradation. Under the provisions of Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, no new point sources, treated or otherwise, are allowed to enter into designated streams or any contributing drainage. With passage of the Water Quality Act of 1987, states were given additional support and direction for comprehensive implementation of non- point source controls statewide and in local jurisdictions. Programs include monitoring the effects of recharging urban runoff into groundwater. It would be expensive and difficult, due to the nature of the subsurface materials, to implement a monitoring system to assess the effects of existing non- point discharges in the canyons. All of the streams in the plan area are classified for anti- degradation protection. The streams in the ' 99 Watershed Plan area fall under one or more of the following classifications: Class 1C, Class 2B, Class 3A, or Class 3C. Class 1C is protected for use as a raw water source for domestic water systems, with prior treatment by standard complete treatment processes as required by the Utah State Division of Environmental Quality. Class 2B is protected for in- stream recreational use and aesthetics such as boating, water skiing, and similar uses except for swimming. Class 3A is protected for in- stream use by beneficial aquatic wildlife including species of game fish and cold water aquatic life and aquatic organisms necessary in their food chain. Class 3C waters are protected for non- game hsh and other aquatic life, including the aquatic organisms necessary in their food chain. • City Creek is classified as 2B and 3A from Memory Grove to the water treatment plant, and 1C and 3A from the water treatment plant to its headwaters. Page 41 |