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Author Archives: Laurine Lassalle

Laurine Lassalle is Aspen Journalism’s data desk editor, where she works to catalogue and analyze local public data. She also heads our our “Tracking the Curve” project, documenting COVID-19 in Pitkin, Eagle and Garfield counties. She has a master’s degree in data and investigative journalism from UC Berkeley with an emphasis on environmental reporting.

Posted inLocal Public Data

Data dashboard: Traffic in town is back to 2019 levels

Avatar photo by Laurine Lassalle July 16, 2021July 19, 2021

When the ski lifts shut down in mid-March 2020, the city of Aspen recorded a significant drop in traffic at the entrance to Aspen. But this year, the daily average for the months of March through June is getting back to 2019 levels, up to 23,510 cars per day on average for June 2021.

Posted inLocal Public Data

Data dashboard: Air temperatures rise, while steams flow at one third of average

Avatar photo by Laurine Lassalle July 12, 2021July 12, 2021

The Colorado River below Glenwood Springs ran at 2,270 cfs on July 7, which is 34.76% of average for the day. On the same day, the Roaring Fork just upstream of Aspen was flowing at 89.7 cfs, which is 38.7% of average.

Posted inLocal Public Data

Data dashboard: Wastewater flow rates track 2020’s unusual trends

Avatar photo by Laurine Lassalle July 2, 2021July 9, 2021

While 2020 overall posted the lowest flow levels at the Aspen wastewater treatment plant in 10 years, the fall months had the highest readings for any September-November stretch in that time.

Posted inLocal Public Data

Data dashboard: Summer tourism is back, water levels keep dropping

Avatar photo by Laurine Lassalle June 25, 2021June 25, 2021

After a low summer season for Aspen and Snowmass tourism last year due to the pandemic, this summer promises to get back on track and even exceed 2019’s occupancy rates.

Posted inLocal Public Data

Data dashboard: Streamflows dropping and a hot start to summer

Avatar photo by Laurine Lassalle June 18, 2021June 25, 2021

With the peak flows coming in low and early, streamflows are now registering as low as 24 percent of average, on the Colorado River at Westwater.

Courtesy Voces Unidas
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As Latino COVID vaccinations lag in the region, activists push for systemic change

Hector SalasAvatar photo by Hector Salas and Laurine Lassalle May 14, 2021April 12, 2022

In Eagle County, which has the largest Latino population among the three counties making up the Roaring Fork Valley, 60% of white people have received one dose, compared with 15% of Latinos.

Posted inEnvironment

Pitkin County trail use spiked 44%, reaching record levels in 2020

Avatar photo by Laurine Lassalle March 17, 2021October 19, 2021

“This use, combined with new patterns of social distancing, has translated into visible impacts and degradation on the land,” according to OST director Tennenbaum.

Posted inCOVID-19 Info

Pitkin County’s COVID-19 testing capacity holds up despite setback

Avatar photo by Laurine Lassalle February 14, 2021April 22, 2021

The number of COVID-19 tests given in Pitkin County more than tripled — from an average of 34 tests per day on Nov. 1 to 111 tests per day on Dec. 1, and then kept increasing. But on Jan. 21, the state announced that Curative tests could not be used for asymptomatic testing.

Posted inEnvironment

Local ranchers face backlog of cattle due to coronavirus. Now comes the drought.

Avatar photo by Laurine Lassalle September 7, 2020February 25, 2021

“We not only do have to keep them because there was nowhere to go with them, and then all of a sudden we find ourselves in the middle of a drought. We basically got to the point where we had to get rid of them, whatever price was being offered.”

Posted inCOVID-19 Info

Nonresident COVID-19 cases are a significant part of virus’ footprint in Pitkin County

Curtis WackerleAvatar photo by Curtis Wackerle and Laurine Lassalle August 31, 2020November 29, 2021

Pitkin County began tracking nonresidents who tested positive here in mid-July, after numerous inquiries on the topic from news media and community groups; Aspen Journalism on July 13 filed a Colorado Open Records Act request for data on nonresident COVID-19 cases.

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