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Category: Water

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

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Districts withdraw claim for new dam on Crystal River

by Brent Gardner-Smith April 25, 2011February 19, 2021

The decision takes away the long-simmering prospect, however thin, that two Ruedi-sized dams would be built on the Crystal River, including the 129,00-acre-feet Osgood Reservoir, which would have put Redstone underwater.

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The market for Crystal River water

by Brent Gardner-Smith March 29, 2011February 19, 2021

If the Colorado River District dammed the Crystal River, would anyone want to buy the water stored behind the dams? Probably so, according to Kerry Sundeen of Grand River Consulting, with large landowners along the Crystal River seeking irrigation water perhaps the strongest potential market.

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West Divide Project water rights chart and map

by Brent Gardner-Smith March 25, 2011February 19, 2021

An updated look at the conditional water rights associated with the West Divide Project was provided at a meeting on Wednesday, March 16, 2011.

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PitCo’s Ely barred from executive session, new maps show range of reservoirs

by Brent Gardner-Smith March 17, 2011February 19, 2021

Pitkin County Attorney John Ely was asked to leave a closed-door session on Wednesday, March 16, so two water district boards could talk about potential dams on the Crystal River without Pitkin County, which sits on one of the boards, in the room.

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The Phantom Dams of the Crystal River

by Brent Gardner-Smith March 3, 2011February 22, 2021

A dam once envisioned on the upper Crystal River would drown the town of Redstone under an artificial lake bigger than Ruedi Reservoir, submerging the Redstone Castle and putting the town’s historic coke ovens under water.

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The History of the West Divide Project

by Brent Gardner-Smith March 2, 2011February 19, 2021

To understand the prospect of, and the evolving rationale for, the Osgood and Placita Reservoirs, it is helpful to imagine driving from Marble to DeBeque. Every day, water from the Crystal River makes this same journey.

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Draining the Fork & the Pan: transmountain diversions

by Brent Gardner-Smith March 1, 2011February 19, 2021

“Local interests in the Roaring Fork Watershed should … expect Front Range water providers to eventually attempt to firm up undeveloped water rights and excess diversion capacity associated with the Fry-Ark Project, Busk-Ivanhoe System, and Twin Lakes System.”

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Comments on Aspen’s hydro power proposal

by Brent Gardner-Smith March 1, 2011February 22, 2021

Concerned local citizens tour the Maroon Creek diversion structure for a demonstration this summer of what minimum stream flow looks like. Photo by Brent Gardner-Smith. Comments on the city of Aspen’s Castle Creek Energy Center and Hydroelectric Project, which would use 25 cfs of water from Castle Creek and 27 cfs of water from Maroon […]

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