Sediment
September 8, 2009--Aspen’s runoff much higher than national average (Aspen Daily News)
Yet another way Aspen acts more like a big city than a town of 6,000
permanent residents is in what it dumps into its local waterway. Heavy commuter traffic, concentrated and high-paced construction
activity and a developed ski mountain produce a lot of dirt and junk
that, when unimpeded, wash into the Roaring Fork River.
August 15, 2009--Popular Vail camping spot to be closed for stream improvements (Glenwood Springs Post Independent)
When people camp too close to Piney River, they damage it. That's going on at the popular Vail area camp spot.
July 20, 2009--Nature preserve soon to replace Clifton's old wastewater lagoons (Grand Junction Sentinel)
As of Wednesday, workers were halfway through the job of dredging the district’s three decommissioned lagoons.
July 18, 2009--City considers revising code for stormwater (Durango Herald)
As monsoon season approaches, the city of Durango is proposing revisions to the city code as it pertains to stormwater runoff control at construction sites and during post-construction.
June 30, 2009--Coastal development, loss of water quality threatening seagrass worldwide (L.A.Times)
Coastal development and declining water quality are threatening seagrasses worldwide, researchers report.
June 26, 2009--Roaring Fork River near Aspen will see restoration work (Aspen Times)
Plans to dredge a slow, flat stretch of the Roaring Fork River east of Aspen won approval from Pitkin County commissioners Wednesday, but they put limits on how much nature can be manipulated.
June 2, 2009--Lawsuit filed to stop logging near Rio Grande Headwaters (Environmental News Service)
Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging a logging project on national forest lands in southwestern Colorado that they claim would impact the headwaters of the Rio Grande river.
May 24, 2009--N.M. tribe works to restore spring (Durango Herald)
After years of drought and livestock grazing, a spring sacred to an Native American tribe in north-central New Mexico has dried up, and now the concern is that erosion, climate change and the region's grow
May 10, 2009--Rulings drain protections for state waterways (Denver Post)
The stream was ruled not among "the waters of the United States" by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — and was not protected by the federal Clean Water Act.
- Clean Water Act
- Clean Water Restoration Act
- Colorado
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Erosion
- Newlin Gulch Creek
- Press Clippings
- Reuter-Hess Reservoir
- Sediment
- State Water Quality Control Commission
- Trout Unlimited
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Water Contamination
- Water Pollution
- Water Quality
- Watershed
- Wetlands
May 8, 2009--Vail creek project gets three awards (Vail Daily)
A Colorado Department of Transportation project that cleaned sediment and sand from the Black Gore Creek area on the west side of Vail Pass along I-70 in Vail, Colorado has received three recent honors.
