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Data dashboard: October wastewater flow rates close to pre-pandemic seasons
Local streamflow levels remain below their minimum instream flows
By Laurine Lassalle | November 9, 2021
• Wastewater flow rates in October 2021 was 0.4% higher than in October 2019.
• Roaring Fork River in Aspen running at 23.26 cfs on Nov. 7, up from 21.49 cfs last week.
Tracking the Curve
Documenting COVID-19 in Pitkin, Eagle and Garfield counties
By Laurine Lassalle | November 9, 2021
Pitkin and Garfield counties’ incidence rates are similar to what they were a month ago, while Eagle County’s incidence doubled.
City looks to relive history on storied Entrance to Aspen saga
“‘There are a lot of new residents who are not familiar with what was studied, what was screened out, why it was screened out and what the current (record of decision) would do for our community,” said Councilwoman Rachel Richards during a Nov. 1 work session. “I think we need to really take a good hard look at those and reintroduce ourselves as it were.”
Source: aspentimes.com | Read more
Congressional infrastructure deal brings $8B in climate, water projects to the West
“More than $8.3 billion in water projects alone earmarked for Western states will help pay for programs such as renting water from farmers to send down the Colorado River in extremely dry years, replanting and managing high country forests devastated by wildfires and recycling more water in cities … .”
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A Long Tangent: An old man and his young dog hike every day for a solid year
“When I pulled up in my mud-covered, dented and scratched Toyota 4Runner, eyes squinted and brows furrowed. I would not have been the least bit surprised had one of the supposedly surreptitious security people — camouflaged as trail trash, except they were too well-groomed, wore hyper-pricy footwear and had wires coming out of their ears — intercepted me and asked what my business was.”
Source: aspendailynews.com | Read more
Colorado agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But first they exempted the biggest polluters.
“Adding Suncor to the 5% cut list instead of the 20% cut list “would support the broader public policy objective of balancing (greenhouse gas) reductions with protecting the competitiveness of Colorado industries from out-of-state suppliers, whose facilities are not subject to Colorado GHG regulations,” a company spokeswoman said.”
Source: coloradosun.com | Read more
Ireland: Kill the LLCs before they kill your town
“The next wave about to break badly on resort communities is LLC ownership of vacation homes that are structured as unregulated timeshare operations. … Each “member” has the right to use his/her/their property for certain days on a flexible schedule, creating, in effect, a private hotel with a property tax bill at a quarter of the commercial rate and no nettlesome regulations for housing mitigation for employees generated, no parking regulation, no park space requirement, no recycling, etc.”
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Proposed overnight fee in Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness widely opposed by public
“The Forest Service said the reservation system is needed to ease the environmental degradation occurring in the wilderness “hot spots.” The agency said it must charge the fee to hire more rangers to patrol the wilderness and enforce the restrictions. Officials contend they can impose the fee under the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act.”
Source: aspentimes.com | Read more
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