The City of Pueblo wants to find out if a streamside collection system would be a realistic alternative to dredging the sediment-clogged channel of Fountain Creek. On Wednesday, Pueblo Planner Scott Hobson asked the Arkansas Basin Roundtable to support a $225,000 grant from the Statewide Water Supply Account that would go toward a $383,000 demonstration project. The roundtable passed the project along to the Colorado Water Conservation Board, which will look at funding it in March. The project would use a technology developed by Streamside Systems to remove “bed-load” sediment from the Fountain Creek Channel, Hobson said.

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