Southeastern Water Conservancy District
May 13, 2009--Conservancy district, Aurora argue water case (Pueblo Chieftain)
Proponents of a plan to export Arkansas Valley water to Aurora are asserting that the plan benefits almost everyone in the basin except possibly a small group opposed to it.
- Agriculture
- Arkansas River
- Arkansas Valley
- Arkansas Valley Conduit
- Colorado
- Fryingpan-Arkansas Act
- Fryingpan-Arkansas Project
- Irrigation
- Lake Pueblo
- Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District
- Municipal Water
- Press Clippings
- Southeastern Water Conservancy District
- U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
- Water Rights
- Water Storage
- Water Supply Act
November 20, 2008--Upstream areas contribute more salinity to river (Pueblo Chieftain)
While the concentration of salt in the Arkansas River is highest at the Kansas state line, most of it enters the water before the river hits irrigation systems in the Lower Arkansas Valley.
September 13, 2008--Water board to fill shortfall (Pueblo Chieftain)
In a dry year when transmountain water has been critical for the Arkansas Valley, all deliveries will be made.
January 17, 2008--SE officials to pitch for conduit (Pueblo Chieftain)
Officials from the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District will travel to Washington next week to lobby for the Arkansas Valley Conduit. The district has pushed the $330 million conduit for years, but learned Thursday there may be a threat to some of the gains made last year.
January 9, 2008--Group tackles water allocation (La Junta Tribune Democrat)
A recommendation concerning the allocation of municipal project water east of Pueblo raised some questions from Arkansas Valley Conduit Advisory Committee members Tuesday.
October 4, 2007--Bigger lake or the next best things? (Pueblo Chieftain)
If Alan Hamel had his druthers, the study of enlargement of Lake Pueblo would have been done by now, and - if enlargement was feasible - cranes would be out there right now adding some gates to the top of the spillway. Hamel, executive director of the Pueblo Board of Water Works, was instrumental in developing the Preferred Storage Options Plan, stemming from a study of storage possibiliti
September 22, 2007--Plan would stretch Fry-ark resources (Pueblo Chieftain)
Arkansas River water users could benefit more from the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project by applying more tax money to upkeep and using future lease revenue to pay off parts of the project.
