Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
February 7, 2010--Telluride group files legal challenge to Energy Fuels mill water (Montrose Daily Planet)
A Telluride conservation nonprofit filed a legal challenge on January 26 in Montrose District Court to the proposed Energy Fuels (EF) Pinon Ridge yellowcake uranium mill, based on their belief that EF cannot prove they have the capacity to exploit and utilize water beneficially, and that they cannot avoid polluted water discharges from the mill.
November 19, 2009--Many Colorado water waivers revoked after taint (Denver Post)
Colorado has revoked waivers from as many as 72 public drinking-water systems and is now requiring chlorine treatment of most public supplies as part of the response to a salmonella-poisoning epidemic that ravaged Alamosa last year.
August 13, 2009--City OKs water ballot question (Fort Morgan Times)
The Sterling City Council approved presenting a ballot question to Sterling voters seeking approval of bonds to pay for an upgraded city water system.
August 11, 2009--Water woes continue for Zinno residents (Pueblo Chieftain)
Residents of the Zinno subdivision will have to wait at least two more days before they'll have water from their own system flowing through their taps again.
August 11, 2009--Rural water systems struggle to survive (Pueblo Chieftain)
While the state’s attention has, for years, been focused on providing water for future residents in metropolitan areas, the needs of rural communities are reaching critical proportions.
August 8, 2009--Group traces metals in water (Cortez Journal)
An all-day workshop Saturday, one of the Moving Mountain Education Seminar series sponsored by the Mountain Studies Institute here, brought together 20 people interested in talking about and seeing the con
- Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative
- Animas River Stakeholders Group
- Aquifer
- Bureau of Land Management
- Cement Creek
- Colorado
- Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Fisheries
- Mining
- Press Clippings
- Prospect Gulch
- Trout Unlimited
- U.S. Forest Service
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Upper Animas River
- Water Contamination
- Water Pollution
- Water Quality
- Watershed
August 4, 2009--EPA proposes new clean-up plan for Leadville (Colorado Independent)
To some long-time Leadville residents and state preservationists, the tailings piles are a valuable part of a distinct local history, a symbo
August 3, 2009--Reclaimed water picture anything but transparent (Washington Park Profile)
Despite unanimous public opposition, by July 2000 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Metro Wastewater had struck a deal for toxic ground water from the former Lowry landfill to travel through Au
- Colorado
- Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
- Denver Water
- Denver Water Recycled Water Program
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Ferril Lake
- Groundwater
- Landfill
- Metro Wastewater
- Nuclear Waste
- Press Clippings
- Sewers
- Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Water Contamination
- Water Pollution
- Water Quality
- Water Recycling
July 31, 2009--Sensors keep tabs on health of Grand County rivers (Grand County Sky-Hi Daily News)
Each week, Bob Weiby puts on waders and heads down to the river. Instead of casting a fly rod, however, this angler fishes for a tubular device anchored by a slate of cement.
- Bureau of Land Management
- Colorado
- Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
- Colorado River
- Denver Water
- Fisheries
- Grand County Water Information Network
- Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District
- Northern Water
- Press Clippings
- Three Lakes
- Water Quality
- Water Rights
- Water Storage
- Windy Gap Firming Project
July 29, 2009--Group to prepare source water plan (Fort Morgan Times)
The Morgan County Quality Water District, with the help of several other agencies, hopes to have a draft of a source water protection plan ready in October.
- Beaver Creek
- Colorado
- Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
- Colorado Oil and Gas Association
- Colorado Rural Water Association
- Hay Gulch
- Morgan Conservation District
- Morgan County Quality Water District
- Oil and Gas Industry
- Press Clippings
- San Arroyo
- Soiuth Platte River
- Water Quality
- Water Storage
