Controlled releases are increasing, and a big thick snowpack above the reservoir could lead to water flowing down an open spillway.
Author Archives: Brent Gardner-Smith
Brent Gardner-Smith founded Aspen Journalism in 2011. He also served as AJ’s first executive director, from 2011 until 2021, and as its first editor, until 2020. He's also been the news director at Aspen Public Radio and a reporter at The Aspen Times and the Aspen Daily News. Brent also worked at ProPublica in 2010, as a communications intern, while earning his master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.
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Colorado taking demand-management workgroups behind closed doors
As demand management heats up, it’s heading behind closed doors for candid discussions, at least for awhile.
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Water judge issues decree for Aspen’s Castle Creek water storage right, poised to issue Maroon Creek right
In the decrees, the City of Aspen agrees to move its conditional water storage rights out of the upper valleys.
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Checking the water jug that is Lake Powell
The Colorado River District is studying the factors that contribute to water levels in Lake Powell.
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Aspen responds to judge’s request in Castle/Maroon dam cases
The judge asked for more info, and the city response’s was succinct.
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Robinson Ditch section on Roaring Fork River gets new opening for rafts, boats
Rocks in the river are re-worked, to the benefit of boaters.
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Colorado River District shifts gaze to a 2020 tax question
A reprieve from Gallagher, and a new potential water-funding question in 2019, come in to play.
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Colorado studies options after Trump signs drought contingency plan
Trump signs DCP bill, IID sues, states must still sign, and Colorado investigates using less water.
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The Shoshone hydro plant went down, but flows in the Colorado River stayed up
An “outage protocol,” and a brief warm spell, kept the river above 1,250 cfs.
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Fact fuses with fiction at Phoenix water meeting
Hot, dusty and chaotic is in the forecast from science, and science fiction.