In the Yampa River valley, this designation would primarily impact new residential wells located on lots less than 35 acres and wells used for purposes other than domestic uses.
Author Archives: Allen Best
Allen Best wrote his first story about water in Colorado in 1977 when living in Kremmling. After that, he edited newspapers in Winter Park and in the Vail/Eagle Valley before relocating to metropolitan Denver in the late 1990s. Since 2003, he has written about climate change and the energy transition while deepening his work in water, both within Colorado and the Colorado basin.
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East Troublesome Fire could cause water-quality impacts for years
Denver Water may offer lessons useful to water managers, who will be dealing with impacts from the East Troublesome Fire for years, perhaps decades.
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Water released from Elkhead Reservoir lifts call on Yampa River
“We hope these actions help alleviate the depth and severity of ranchers being curtailed and allow some of them to turn their pumps back on to grow more forage before winter,” says a Colorado River District official.
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Water from retired coal plants could help endangered fish in the Yampa River
The Yampa can drop in late summer and drought years but water now consumed by power plants in Craig and Hayden could boost flows.
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Former Grand County manager, Lurline Underbrink Curran, given award by Colorado Water Trust
Working for better outcomes in the wake of transmountain diversions
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Renewed digging, ‘Davos of climate’ ideas identified for Snowmastodon
When scientists and volunteer assistants wrapped up their excavation of the Ziegler Reservoir in 2011 to ride triumphantly in Aspen’s Fourth of July parade, they left untouched 90 percent of the deposits congealed in peat and clay.
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Did humans kill huge animals in Snowmass 50,000 years ago?
Did humans kill a mammoth 50,000 years ago and then cache the meat for later use? Circumstantial evidence of rocks intermixed with bones suggests that was the case. If so, it would rank as one of the major scientific discoveries of the decade, putting people on the North American continent some 36,000 years earlier than what is now generally agreed upon by archaeologists.
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Tom Cardamone to lead local effort to leverage ‘Snowmastodon’ find
Scientists consider the 6,000 bones, including those of at least 34 separate mastodons, and other material excavated from Ziegler Reservoir in 2010 and 2011 a trove of prehistoric treasures.