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Category: Water

Our water desk, staffed by Heather Sackett, produces the most authoritative reporting available on Roaring Fork and upper Colorado river basin water policy and politics.

Posted inWater

City report on hydro riddled with errors

Brent Gardner-Smith by Brent Gardner-Smith April 10, 2012February 19, 2021

ASPEN – City of Aspen officials are working to correct several mistakes in a report submitted last week to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regarding its proposed hydropower plant on Castle Creek.

Posted inWater

New report drops net power estimates for city hydro plant

Brent Gardner-Smith by Brent Gardner-Smith April 9, 2012February 19, 2021

Consultants for the city have lowered the estimate of how much electricity Aspen would likely produce if it built and operated a new hydro plant on Castle Creek

Posted inWater

Expert recommends filling in Rio Grande ‘kayak park’

Brent Gardner-Smith by Brent Gardner-Smith March 8, 2012February 19, 2021

A highly regarded expert on rivers who has worked for both Pitkin County and the city of Aspen has recommended that a channel dug by the city in 1992 as a kayak course along the John Denver Sanctuary be filled in because it is harming the ecosystem in the Roaring Fork River.

Posted inWater

Two locals seek approvals for new rafting company

Brent Gardner-Smith by Brent Gardner-Smith March 6, 2012February 19, 2021

Two local men are looking to start a new whitewater rafting company that would take customers down sections of the Crystal and Roaring Fork rivers.

Posted inWater

Groups call for new stream gauges to measure rivers

Brent Gardner-Smith by Brent Gardner-Smith February 13, 2012February 19, 2021

Two groups critical of the city of Aspen’s proposed hydropower plant along the banks of Castle Creek are now raising funds to install stream gauges on that stream, as well as Maroon Creek.

Posted inWater

Aspen’s request for faster review of hydro draws opposition

Brent Gardner-Smith by Brent Gardner-Smith January 23, 2012February 19, 2021

The city of Aspen’s request to the feds to use an expedited review process for its Castle Creek hydroelectric project has run into stiff opposition

Posted inWater

A look at who is suing Aspen over water rights for hydro

Brent Gardner-Smith by Brent Gardner-Smith January 4, 2012February 19, 2021

In the mix of property owners are two billionaires and two Aspen locals with a history of successfully taking on local governments.

Posted inWater

Opposition against Placita dam on Crystal River grows

Brent Gardner-Smith by Brent Gardner-Smith August 12, 2011February 19, 2021

Six different parties have filed statements of opposition in state water court against the Colorado River District and the West Divide Water Conservancy District, which are seeking to solidify their rights to someday build a dam on the upper Crystal River.

Posted inWater

PitCo opposes potential dam on the Crystal River

Brent Gardner-Smith by Brent Gardner-Smith July 28, 2011February 19, 2021

The proposed Placita dam would back up 4,000 acre-feet of water. The prior Placita dam would have held back 62,000 acre-feet.

Posted inTransmountain Diversions, Water

Silencing the Roaring Fork River

Brent Gardner-Smith by Brent Gardner-Smith July 27, 2011February 19, 2021

About 47,000 acre-feet of water has been diverted each year of the last decade off the top of the Roaring Fork River drainage and sent through Tunnel No. 1 under Independence Mountain.

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