Plans
Current Watershed Plan
In 2025, CCBWQA is working to update its 2012 Watershed Plan. The updated plan will incorporate findings from watershed and reservoir modeling recently completed by the CCBWQA and provide direction for future watershed actions to improve and protect Cherry Creek Reservoir. During 2023-2024, CCBWQA held three planning workshops to incorporate feedback from the Board and Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) with plan completion anticipated in mid-2025.
The Cherry Creek Reservoir Watershed Plan is a strategic plan for achieving Watershed and Reservoir health. The Cherry Creek Reservoir and surrounding State Park serve as an important urban recreational amenity, providing opportunities for wildlife habitat, sport fishing, boating, swimming, bicycling, bird watching, horseback riding, and hiking. Located in metropolitan Denver, this “oasis” is an urban jewel along the Front Range of Colorado for everyone to enjoy.
Watershed and Reservoir health and water quality are generally measured by a variety of chemical, physical, and biological constituents, including, transparency (Secchi depth), phytoplankton composition, chlorophyll levels, temperature, dissolved oxygen concentration, phosphorus concentrations, nitrogen concentrations, and inflow quantity. Water quality standards have been adopted to control algal production (eutrophication), of the Reservoir, through limits on phosphorus and chlorophyll concentrations.
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