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Category: Water

Reporting on water and rivers in the Roaring Fork and upper Colorado river basins.

Posted inWater

Water saved through upper-basin program unlikely to move needle in Powell

Heather Sackett by Heather Sackett May 12, 2023May 17, 2023

The effort shows that upper-basin water managers are willing to do their part to prevent the system from crashing, but that part is small compared with the cuts they say are needed in the lower basin.

Posted inWater

Stream restoration bill watered down

Heather Sackett by Heather Sackett May 3, 2023May 3, 2023

After amendments removed language referring to these projects, the bill now only includes minor stream-restoration activities such as bank stabilization or restructuring a channel to recover from wildfire or flood impacts.

Posted inWater

Community summit kicks off talks on how best to protect Crystal River

Heather Sackett by Heather Sackett April 28, 2023April 30, 2023

Although there may not be imminent, specific threats of dams or diversions on the Crystal, Wild & Scenic proponents say that doesn’t mean there won’t be threats at some point.

Navajo Bridge across the Colorado River
Posted inWater

Drought task force to consider conservation programs

Heather Sackett by Heather Sackett April 21, 2023May 4, 2023

Demand management has many skeptics, especially in western Colorado where some worry that temporarily compensating irrigators to use less could be a slippery slope toward “buy and dry,” stripping communities of their water.

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Record March snow fueling above-average spring runoff forecasts

Heather Sackett by Heather Sackett April 14, 2023April 14, 2023

With warmer temperatures this week, it’s likely that much of the Western Slope has already turned the corner, hitting peak snowpack and beginning to melt out.

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Bill aims to address water quality at mobile home parks

Heather Sackett by Heather Sackett April 7, 2023April 14, 2023

Water quality in mobile home parks is an environmental-justice issue for the Latino community.

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Little information released on conservation-program proposals

Heather Sackett by Heather Sackett March 31, 2023April 10, 2023

But in addition to redacting the applicants’ personal identifying information, nearly everything else has been blacked out as well: the location of the projects, such as which streams and ditches are involved; details of the water rights involved; and how much the applicants are asking to be paid for their water.

Field of hay irrigated with water from Colorado River tributary
Posted inWater

West Slope water managers will not review, approve applications for conservation program

Heather Sackett by Heather Sackett March 17, 2023March 22, 2023

Eight of the proposed projects are in the southwest corner of the state, within the bounds of the Southwestern Water Conservation District, and get their irrigation water from the Dolores Project.

Blue River with snowy river bank, blue skies, and dogs in the water.
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Colorado Springs seeks to keep water rights tied to dams, reservoirs

Heather Sackett by Heather Sackett March 11, 2023March 11, 2023

Colorado Springs Utilities has been mired in water court since 2015, fighting for its conditional water rights, which date to 1952 and are tied to three proposed reservoirs

SNOTEL site on McClure Pass.
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Low-elevation snow stacks up this season

Heather Sackett by Heather Sackett March 4, 2023March 10, 2023

What more snow at lower elevations means for the timing of this spring’s runoff is also unclear, but forecasters say runoff volume should be above average.

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