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Category: Water

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

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River District considers criteria for water conservation program

by Heather Sackett January 20, 2023January 20, 2023

The policy says that Front Range water providers — which in total take about 500,000 acre-feet of Colorado River water each year across the Continental Divide to growing cities and for agriculture — must also contribute their fair share of water.

Volunteers measuring snow-whatever equivalent at the SNOTEL site at the top of McClure Pass
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Scientists studying water supply focus on weeks following peak snowpack

by Heather Sackett January 18, 2023January 18, 2023

But according to the paper, in 2021, “rates of snowmelt throughout April were alarming and quickly worsened summer runoff outlooks which underscores that 1 April may no longer be a reliable benchmark for western water supply.”

Caesars Palace in Las Vegas
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Upper basin moves closer to water conservation program

by Heather Sackett December 18, 2022December 20, 2022

LAS VEGAS — Upper Colorado River basin officials seemed to inch closer to implementing a demand management program, the heart of which involves paying agricultural water users to use less, at the Colorado River Water Users Association conference this week.   At the annual gathering of water managers and experts in Las Vegas — which sold […]

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Upper Colorado River officials release details of water savings program

by Heather Sackett December 10, 2022December 13, 2022

The renewed SCPP is different from an upper basin demand management program, something the UCRC is studying and to which the state of Colorado devoted more than two years and nine workgroups as part of its feasibility investigation.

Taylor Draw Dam
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White River call ‘significant’ for water users

by Heather Sackett December 8, 2022December 12, 2022

District General Manager Alden Vanden Brink said in an email that the district’s full water right was not being met several months out of the year and that the call will remain on until the full water right or capacity of the turbine is met.

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Studies tackle water-replacement options for shortages on Crystal River

by Heather Sackett December 2, 2022December 13, 2022

A parallel study, undertaken by the River District and environmental-and-recreation advocacy group American Rivers, is looking at nature-based solutions. The idea is that by keeping water on the landscape higher in the basin, it could recharge aquifers and boost river flows in late summer.

Weaver Ditch in Sopris Park
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RWAPA unveils valley-wide outdoor watering standards

by Heather Sackett November 19, 2022November 22, 2022

In an effort to unify the Roaring Fork watershed, a local agency has developed valley-wide outdoor watering standards that its board members hope will be adopted by municipal water providers. 

All-American Canal
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Four things to know about the lower Colorado River basin

by Heather Sackett November 16, 2022December 1, 2022

The tour took participants by bus from Las Vegas though the green alfalfa fields of the Fort Mohave Indian Reservation, past the big diversions serving the Central Arizona Project and Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, and to the hot, below-sea-level agricultural expanse of the biggest water user on the river: the Imperial Irrigation District.

Wagner Park in Aspen, CO
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Aspen’s water use stays steady

by Heather Sackett November 14, 2022December 12, 2022

Getting some customers to change their behavior, especially when it comes to outdoor watering, is challenging.

John Saunders rafting Yampa River
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Recreation groups ask for more inclusion in state Water Plan

by Heather Sackett October 14, 2022October 26, 2022

In the Colorado water world, recreation usually is lumped together with the environment as a “non-consumptive” use since both seek to keep water in the stream. But signatories to the letter say that grouping overlooks the importance of recreation to the economy.

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