Aspen now has agreements with all of the parties contesting its conditional water storage rights in the Castle Creek valley, and with all but one of the parties in the Maroon Creek valley.
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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Northern Water, citing lawsuit, delays bonds for big dam tied to Windy Gap
A lawsuit in federal district court has pushed back the schedule for Northern Water to issue bids and bonds for Chimney Hollow Reservoir, the core of the Windy Gap Firming Project.
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USFS opposes Fry-Ark conditional water rights in Holy Cross Wilderness
The Justice Dept. filed opposition in water court in July on behalf of USFS regarding six potential diversion dams in the Holy Cross Wilderness.
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As a water year, 2018 is in bad company
2018 started with a thin snowpack that ran off early and now has found trouble in a hot and dry summer.
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Western Slope to keep studying water without state funds, Front Range support
Two Western Slope water conservation districts are asking questions that the Front Range thinks the state should be asking.
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Colorado’s water managers decry lack of water, surplus of fire
Some tough times for those relying on rivers in Colorado.
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The Lake Christine Fire on Basalt Mountain: information resources
Information sources to track the fire.
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Aspen signs deals with American Rivers, Trout Unlimited to move Castle/Maroon dam rights
Three out of ten opposing parties in the two water court cases have yet to sign agreements with the city.
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Upper Colorado River pilot program paying irrigators to leave water for Lake Powell will end after 2018
An initial two-year experimental program in the upper Colorado River basin is to end after four years of effort, with a list of lessons learned.
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Town of Carbondale’s Weaver Ditch focus of study on water efficiency
Besides leaving more water in the river, another goal of the project is to serve as an example for other irrigators on the Crystal River.