Can the two sides, with the help of a mutually trusted expert, agree on how much water can be taken out of the creeks?
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.
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Glenwood drops into whitewater court
The city of Glenwood Springs seeks new recreational water rights tied to play waves on the Colroado River at No Name, Horseshoe Bend and above Two Rivers Park.
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Schwartz sponsors bill challenging governor’s water plan process
SB 14-115 challenges Hickenlooper’s call for river “roundtables” and the CWCB to write the plan.
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CWCB rules in favor of new Basalt kayak park
The Colorado Water Conservation Board on Monday unanimously ruled in favor of Pitkin County’s effort to create a new water right for a kayak park in Basalt on the Roaring Fork River.
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Colorado’s instream flow program is lauded, challenged
The law, passed in 1973, allows the CWCB to hold instream flow rights to help “protect the environment to a reasonable degree.”
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Water demands grow on both sides of the Continental Divide
Faced with a growing population, representatives of water interests on the Front Range want to plan for additional diversions, or “new supply,” from the Western Slope. Still in doubt is whether that water is available.
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Hydro production at Glen Canyon Dam threatened by low water
Continued drought could leave too little water from the Colorado River in Lake Powell for the eight giant turbines in the dam to produce electricity.
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Colorado River roundtable to Front Range: Look elsewhere for water
“The notion that increasing demands on the Front Range can always be met with a new supply from the Colorado River, or any other river, (is) no longer valid,” the roundtable’s position paper states.
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Aspen Skiing Co. standing behind water rights bill opposed by river groups
SkiCo stands by its support of a bill that would protect its water rights, but, potentially, harm rivers, according to American Rivers and other environmental groups.
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Environmental groups warn bill supported by Aspen Skiing Co. could hurt rivers
American Rivers says the bill will have serious implications for water management across the country.