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Tag: Colorado River Compact

Lake Powell is shown here, in its reach between where the Escalante and San Juan rivers enter the reservoir, in an October 2018 aerial photo from the nonprofit environmental group EcoFlight. Colorado water managers are considering the implications of a program known as demand management that would pay irrigators on a temporary and voluntary basis to take less water from streams in order to boost water levels in Lake Powell, as an insurance policy against compact curtailment.
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Demand management discussions continue amid worsening Colorado River crisis

Heather Sackett by Heather Sackett July 23, 2021April 12, 2022

Some have expressed frustration with what they say is the state’s slow pace of a program rollout and want to begin pilot projects to test the program’s feasibility.

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Homestake Reservoir release proves tricky to track

Heather Sackett by Heather Sackett April 16, 2021April 22, 2021

The reservoir release also could have implications for a potential demand-management program, the feasibility of which the state is currently investigating.

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Report: Estimates of future Upper Colorado River Basin water use confound planning

Heather Sackett by Heather Sackett February 25, 2021April 12, 2022

The issue is twofold: With climate change, there is not enough water for the upper basin to develop new projects without the risk of a compact call; and if the past three decades are any indication, the upper basin is not on track to use more water in the future anyway.

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Reservoir-release pilot project in Colorado begins this week to test possible compact call

Heather Sackett by Heather Sackett September 23, 2020April 21, 2021

But even with shepherding, it’s unlikely the entire 1,800 acre-feet will make it to the state line because of this year’s dry conditions.

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Dividing the waters: How a compact call might unfold on Western Slope

Brent Gardner-Smith by Brent Gardner-Smith June 24, 2019April 21, 2021

Almost all of the water exported from the Western Slope to the Front Range is done with post-compact water rights.

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Mandatory curtailment of water rights in Colorado raised as possibility

Brent Gardner-Smith by Brent Gardner-Smith September 20, 2018April 22, 2021

If the severe drought persists, and Lake Powell dries up, some say Colorado will have to curtail to prevent a compact call.

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Colorado water managers studying Lake Powell levels issues

Brent Gardner-Smith by Brent Gardner-Smith April 26, 2018April 22, 2021

With Lake Powell half full and a dry year extending a prolonged drought, water managers and irrigators are studying how to keep the big reservoir operational and avoid a compact call.

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