Since 2017, Water Asset Management has spent $16.6 million buying up 2,222 acres of irrigated agricultural land in the communities of Fruita, Loma and Mack, west of Grand Junction.
Author Archives: Heather Sackett
Heather Sackett is the managing editor at Aspen Journalism and the editor and reporter on the Water Desk. She has also reported for The Denver Post and the Telluride Daily Planet. Heather has a master’s degree from CU’s Center for Environmental Journalism and her reporting has been recognized by the Colorado Press Association.
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City of Aspen banks on creative thinking for ATM water project
But water managers will have to think outside the box since the usual process of an ATM is transferring water from agricultural to municipal use, and there isn’t much irrigated agriculture in the upper Roaring Fork River basin.
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Survey finds support for Colorado River District ballot measure
But due to concerns about the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, River District officials are still mulling whether to push ahead with a plan to ask voters to restore part of its original mill levy.
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Crystal River Ranch near Carbondale seeks to preserve water rights tied to potential dams, reservoirs
Sue Anschutz-Rodgers, the owner of Crystal River Ranch above Carbondale, has told the state she is making progress toward building two 55-foot-tall dams that would form two 500-acre-foot reservoirs on land she owns in the Four Mile Creek basin and along Dry Park Road.
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Streamflow forecast down for Roaring Fork despite above-normal snowpack
The reason for the discrepancy is dry soils, which soak up spring snowmelt before it gets to streams.
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Shoshone agreement keeps water flowing down Colorado River while hydro plant is inoperable
In the past, if the hydropower plant was not operating, the water right tied to it is not being put to beneficial use and cannot be used.
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Marble quarry operators violated Clean Water Act, Army Corps of Engineers finds
The violation occurred when the mining company moved a tributary of the Crystal River to make room for a new road.
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State demand-management investigation moves ahead
According to a real-time text poll, 57% of the workshop participants said the demand-management feasibility investigation was moving too slowly.
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Pitkin County moves ahead with $1 million river project
The spot, just upstream of the small boat ramp on Willits Lane near the FedEx outlet, has long presented a tricky obstacle to boaters, especially at low water.
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Colorado bill to expand loan of water to the environment has wide support
The bill has garnered the support of the Glenwood Springs-based Colorado River Water Conservation District, which helped shape the revamped 2020 bill with its input.