Although city officials are moving forward with plans to build the whitewater park, they are — for now at least — forgoing a step that could help protect their newly built asset and keep water in the river.
Category: Water
Reporting on water and rivers in the Roaring Fork and upper Colorado river basins.
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Basin roundtables push back on Colorado Water Conservation Board’s proposed code of conduct
The CWCB director said that with important and potentially contentious discussions on the horizon for water-short Colorado, it’s important to have a set of conduct standards in place to guide those discussions.
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Crystal River Wild & Scenic advocates hope to learn from the past
Experts say the main reason there is opposition from water managers to Wild & Scenic in Colorado is not fear of a federal land grab, but the shortage of water in an arid state that is only getting drier with climate change.
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Colorado is examining water speculation, and finding it’s ‘all the problems’ in one
This system, used widely in the western United States, creates an opening for investors who see water as an increasingly valuable commodity in a water-short future, driven by climate change.
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A dam in Grand County is showing an increasing risk of failure, prompting a new engineering study
It’s still unclear whether or when the dam will need to be rehabilitated; that’s what adding more monitoring instruments may help the district figure out.
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Homestake Reservoir release proves tricky to track
The reservoir release also could have implications for a potential demand-management program, the feasibility of which the state is currently investigating.
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Roaring Fork on its way to 100 more acre-feet of flows
Pitkin County’s goal was to get more water into the habitually stressed reach of the Roaring Fork that flows through Aspen during the summer and fall.
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Drought and dry soils again will diminish Colorado’s spring runoff
According to NRCS models, streamflow for the Roaring Fork River, measured at its confluence with the Colorado River in Glenwood Springs, will be 70% of average.
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Proposed statehouse bill could benefit Silt greenhouse
Barr and proponents of the project say that with climate change increasing temperatures, which in turn increases the amount of water crops need, the future of growing food is indoors.
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Forest Service approves test drilling for Whitney Reservoir site
The approval allows Aurora and Colorado Springs, operating together as Homestake Partners, to drill 10 bore samples up to 150 feet deep and for crews on the ground to collect geophysical data.