December 31, 2007--Irrigators: Whitewater park could harm fish (Grand Junction Daily Sentinel)
As Palisade begins work on a $38,000 project to model Colorado River flows for a whitewater park town officials consider harmless, Grand Valley irrigators and some federal agencies say the park could seriously harm endangered fish. Irrigation companies are worried that if the whitewater park is built, it will harm endangered Colorado pikeminnow and razorback sucker habitat and possibly affect their ability to divert water from the river. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service share the irrigators’ concerns about the fish.
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