The Water Information Program

The state has spent $1 million so far to help small water systems deal with radioactive materials in water supplies. The eventual cost will be much greater, however, making alternatives such

 There are two major types of uranium mining: Historically, the most common method was to remove the uranium ore using either open-pit mining -- which scrapes off all the

Northern Colorado lawmakers from both parties joined forces Wednesday to back bills that would impose strict water-quality regulations on uranium-mini

Salazar wrote the Environmental Protection Agency asking it to take into account the potential effects on the large Denver Basin underground water formation, and not just the smaller Laramie-Fox Hi

A billion-dollar solution to the problem of south metro's diminishing groundwater likely will be official in December.

Desert Rock Energy Project took a significant step toward construction with the release of a draft Environmental Impact Statement that found nothing to stand in its way...The EIS describes several pot

Some northern Colorado farmers who had their groundwater pumps shut off last summer will try to convince a state panel this week that they're not drawing down the South Platte River. The farmers, who operate about 400 wells in Weld, Adams, Arapahoe and Elbert counties, claim that their pumping doesn't harm the river because they are tapping an underground aquifer that has very little connection to the surface water. They are asking the Colorado Ground Water Commission to designate about 300,000 acres as a groundwater basin, which would lift the state requirement that they come up with plans to replace the river water they take.