South Platte River Basin
December 18, 2009--Group: Dry times ahead without major H20 project (Greeley Tribune)
Transferring agricultural water to meet future water demands in the South Platte River Basin is not the answer. That was the consensus Thursday when the South Platte Roundtable of the Colorado Water Conservation Board unveiled the findings of its study, Water for the 21st Century.
August 13, 2009--Water roundtable irked at snub of proposals (Pueblo Chieftain)
Members of the Arkansas Basin Roundtable are perturbed that state agencies are not responding to requests from the Front Range to include the Gunnison River basin in its studies of future water suppli
May 19, 2009--Water gap an enigma for CWCB (Pueblo Chieftain)
The state water board is looking at a few big water projects, new ways to share water and conservation as ways to address the impending gap between future municipal water supplies and identified proje
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February 21, 2009--Farming was driving force for water law (Pueblo Chieftain)
Colorado water law was forged in the furnace of the Civil War, and had less to do with the discovery of minerals in the mountains than to support the farmers who were feeding the miners.
December 24, 2008--Pure Cycle focused on Ark Valley operations for now (Pueblo Chieftain)
A glitch in the development of the Lowry Range in Arapahoe County has little to do with a water provider’s plans for the Arkansas Valley. Pure Cycle Corp.
October 22, 2008--Greeley Water Board may oppose Amendment 52 (Greeley Tribune)
An amendment on the Nov. 4 ballot designed to improve the Interstate 70 corridor will take money away from water projects in the state, according to opponents of Amendment 52.
October 2, 2008--Underground basin could boost water supplies (Colorado Springs Gazette)
It is possible to replenish the vanishing Upper Black Squirrel aquifer in eastern El Paso County to create Colorado's first underground storage reservoir, a state agency has determined. But that may be the easiest part in using the aquifer to help solve rural water supply problems, experts said Wednesday.
July 5, 2008--Project aims to replenish aquifer (Denver Post)
Water users and the Colorado Geological Survey are working on a plan to replenish this disappearing aquifer, an ambitious project to pump underground 500,000 acre feet of water—six times what Colorado Springs Utilities customers use in a year—to create Colorado's first man-made underground storage reservoir.
June 30, 2008--Project aims to replenish aquifer (Colorado Springs Gazette)
The aquifer beneath the Upper Black Squirrel basin took a million years to form, as water rushing down from the mountains carved an underground lake with fingers stretching for miles beneath the eastern El Paso County plains. By some estimates, it could be depleted in less than 100 years.
June 15, 2008--State wants cleaner water filtration (Pueblo Chieftain)
Membrane filtration, on the scale used by cities in reverse osmosis operations, results in a briny solution that represents an increasing headache for water providers. If released to streams, the brine can reduce water quality and regulations are tightening.
