Front Range
February 18, 2010--Denver Water extends Moffat EIS comment period (Sky-Hi Daily News)
Denver Water has allowed more time for public input on a project that would take more water from Summit and Grand counties in future years. The proposed Moffat Project would expand Gross Reservoir near Boulder by as much as 72,000 acre-feet. One acre-foot is equal to 325,851 gallons of water and supplies about two single-family households for a year.
February 6, 2010--Pace's water transfer bill dies on House floor (Pueblo Chieftain)
A bill that would have required mitigation agreements between communities where water transfers originate and their destinations died Friday in the House with strong opposition from urban legislators. Rep. Sal Pace's HB1159 was killed on second reading, with 23 members in support and 36 opposed.
January 22, 2010--Brophy bill would set ground water wells in stone (Journal Advocate)
The 2010 General Assembly has returned to Denver for its 120-day session. During the next four months, legislators will tackle issues such as ground water boundaries, vehicle registration and illegal diversion of surface water. The first water bill of the 2010 session got its first hearing Thursday.
January 17, 2010--High and dry is no place to be (Colorado Springs Gazette)
Sometime this century, the disappearing groundwater along Colorado’s Front Range is going to be a huge story. Water providers who have done their jobs will be able to witness this slow-motion train wreck from afar, safe in the knowledge that their customers have nothing to worry about. Those who are content with pumping water out of the ground ultimately will suffer.
January 15, 2010--Grand County hopes to benefit from Front Range water-firming projects (Sky-Hi Daily News)
After about two hours listening to a panel of 15 people who represent Grand County in Denver Water Moffat Firming Project negotiations, one individual went to the microphone and asked point blank: “As a county, are we for this? ...Or we against this?” The answer was not as black or white as the question. The bottom line was: What choice do we have?
December 24, 2009--What the state is studying... (Pueblo Chieftain)
The state is pondering proposed pipelines to move water from most areas of the state to the Front Range in an attempt to meet future water demands. Not all will be built, and none has been officially endorsed. Nevertheless, the Colorado Water Conservation Board looked at them in a preliminary report released last June.
December 21, 2009--As water use falls in Front Range, it explodes elsewhere in Colorado (Denver Post)
Colorado Front Range residents are using less water, but some parts of the Western Slope have seen per capita water use explode in the past decade, according to a new state study. The number of gallons per person used daily in Denver and other South Platte River basin cities decreased 13.6 percent between 2000 and 2008, to 178 gallons from 206 gallons.
September 30, 2009--Ritter: Take time on water transfers (Durango Herald)
The growing Front Range shouldn't be allowed to take more Western Slope water unless it presents a plan that's a "win-win-win" for the entire state, Gov. Bill Ritter said Tuesday.
September 28, 2009--Agriculture's bleak future? (Pueblo Chieftain)
The state’s ongoing study of Colorado River issues and the future water
supply for Front Range growth presents an alternative to the continued
dry-up of agriculture. If issues of how water can be shared and moved within the state are resolved. It’s
a big “if” that caused some consternation last week at the monthly
meeting of the Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District.
September 16, 2009--Water roundtables reach a truce of sorts (Pueblo Chieftain)
After four years of posturing, the Interbasin Compact Committee might finally be getting down to business. The
committee, meeting earlier this week, seems ready to put aside
differences and start the weighty job of tackling impending water
shortages for urban areas that could start showing up in the next few
years. “I was a doubter of whether the process would work.
