AMAX, INC. v. WATER QUAL. CONTROL COM'N

Nos. 86CA1008, 86CA1012.

790 P.2d 879 (1989)

AMAX, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COLORADO WATER QUALITY CONTROL COMMISSION; City of Westminster; City of Arvada; the Boulder Flycasters Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Defendants-Appellees. ADOLPH COORS COMPANY and City of Golden, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. COLORADO WATER QUALITY CONTROL COMMISSION and Colorado Water Quality Control Division; City of Westminster; City of Northglenn; City of Arvada; City of Thornton; the Boulder Flycasters Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Defendants-Appellees.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. II.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing March 29, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vranesh & Raisch, Jerry W. Raisch and Eugene J. Riordan, Boulder, and Western Area Law Dept., Richard O. Austermann, Golden, for plaintiff-appellant Amax, Inc.

Duane Woodard, Atty. Gen., Charles B. Howe, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Richard H. Forman, Sol. Gen., and Jerry W. Goad and Marilyn S. Chappell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for defendants-appellees Colorado Water Quality Control Com'n and Colorado Water Quality Control Div.

Carlson, Hammond & Paddock, Mary Mead Hammond and M. Wray Witten, Denver, for defendant-appellee City of Westminster.

Thomas D. Lustig, Boulder, for defendant-appellee Boulder Flycasters Chapter of Trout Unlimited.

Saunders, Snyder, Ross & Dickson, P.C., James W. Sanderson, Eugene F. Megyesy, Jr. and Kris Ordelheide, Denver, for plaintiffs-appellants Adolph Coors Co. and City of Golden.


Opinion by Judge METZGER.

This appeal is the culmination of several actions initiated by plaintiffs, Amax, Inc., Adolph Coors Co., and the City of Golden, challenging the validity of use classifications and water quality standards adopted by the Colorado Water Quality Control Commission (Commission) for the South Platte River Basin. The district court affirmed the Commission's classifications and standards. On plaintiffs' appeal, we affirm the district court.

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