Renowned energy expert sends report to city council criticizing economic projections and other project details
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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Colorado Water Trust wants to lease water to benefit rivers
The upper Roaring Fork River and the lower Crystal River are two of 19 sections of river in Colorado that the Colorado Water Trust has identified as high priority reaches for its 2013 water leasing program.
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A water gap, and a data gap, along the Roaring Fork River
Current streamflow gauges can present an inaccurate picture of how much water is in the Roaring Fork River as it flows through Aspen.
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PitCo says planning period for Crystal River dam has lapsed
Pitkin County wants a water court judge to rule that the planning period for a project that includes a dam on the upper Crystal River, and one on North Thompson Creek in the Thompson-Divide area, has lapsed since planning began in the late 1950s.
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Wastewater system in Aspen Village needs an upgrade
The 50-year-oldwastewater treatment system that serves 450 people at Aspen Village needs to be upgraded, but the deed-restricted community 10 miles below Aspen doesn’t have the money to do it …
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County paddling upstream to kayak park on Roaring Fork
A long list of powerful parties are still opposing Pitkin County’s efforts to obtain a water right for a kayak park on the Roaring Fork River in Basalt, and a trial date in water court is now looming downstream …
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Study documents ’12 drought conditions on Fork and Crystal
Due to water diversions during the hot and dry summer of 2012, sections of the Roaring Fork River through Aspen and the Crystal River above Carbondale were running significantly below the levels a state water agency says are necessary to protect the environment.
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Trial date set in city hydro-water case
A 15-day trial has been set for Oct. 28 to decide if the city of Aspen has abandoned its water rights to produce hydropower on lower Castle Creek.
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Colorado Springs blocking donation of water to local rivers
Pitkin County and the Colorado Water Conservation Board are finding it’s not easy to leave water in two local rivers for environmental purposes.
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Pitkin County fighting city of Aurora over Fryingpan water
Pitkin County has spent $50,000 since 2010 to prevent a Front Range city from expanding a water right it owns to divert 2,600 acre-feet of water a year from four creeks high in the Fryingpan River basin.