A repair to a rock weir in Basalt had a side effect of reducing passage for boaters.
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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Horseshoe Bend last on list for Glenwood’s whitewater park sites
An agreement with CPW to protect bighorn sheep and fish prioritizes the city’s options.
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Colorado water officials start studying statewide program to reduce water use
The water savings would come, in large measure, by paying willing irrigators to fallow hayfields and let water that would otherwise have been consumed run down the Colorado River system to Lake Powell, which is less than 40 percent full.
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Gail Schwartz joins a majority of women on Colorado’s state water board
The former state senator, who has extensive experience working on water-related legislation, joins the CWCB board of directors.
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Colorado River District sees soft demand for its stored water
Sales to cities and the energy sector are flat or declining, but sales to boost instream flows hold promise.
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Colorado River District seeking to ease tax limitations
97 percent of the district’s revenue comes from property taxes, but state tax laws are reducing its revenue stream.
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Reclamation official explains drought measures in lower Colorado River basin
Reservoir levels are dropping, future hydrology is scary, and water must be saved.
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Runoff in Colorado River basin likely below-average, federal official warns
Despite the welcome snowstorms in Colorado, dry soil in the upper Colorado River basin may keep runoff levels below average.
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State of Colorado, water managers, set to work on water-use reduction plan
Colorado is ready to investigate the feasibility of a “voluntary, temporary and compensated” water-use reduction program
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Aspen Journalism 2018 Annual Report
Aspen Journalism in 2018 covered the drying of the Colorado River basin and the efforts by the City of Aspen to move conditional water rights out of the Castle and Maroon creek valleys.