Septembe 13, 2007--Roundtable supports study of Super Ditch (Pueblo Chieftain)
Despite numerous concerns, the Arkansas Basin Roundtable gave its blessing to a $150,000 state grant request to study a proposed Super Ditch that would allow farmers to lease water to cities. The vote was 28-3, with opposition coming from interests from the Upper Arkansas. The proposal for the Super Ditch - actually a land fallowing, water lease management program - came from the Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District, which has spent $500,000 so far to study the concept. The district plans to put up another $68,000 in the next phase of the study, which will primarily look at how other water rights could be injured.
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