Colorado Network
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Federal funding suspended: Palisade sewage lagoon project in limbo
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Overlooked by sloping vineyards and peach orchards, Palisade’s four sewer lagoons will soon stand empty without the $3 million in what is known as B2E (Bucket 2 Environmental Drought Mitigation) funding from the Bureau of Reclamation. In the 1960s, the town of Palisade built four sewer lagoons on a raised bank of the Colorado River…
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As lodging tax hikes hit ballots, Beaver Creek threatens to incorporate
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BEAVER CREEK – Mountain counties across Colorado are jumping on the lodging-tax bandwagon at the polls this November following the passage last session of a bipartisan state bill (HB25-1247), but one ski county has run afoul of one of its largest tax sources over the issue. The Eagle County commissioners last month approved a Nov.…
