colorado water conservation board
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The future of Colorado water: How the fight over Shoshone water rights affects the Front Range
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A million acre-feet of water in the Colorado River — and the efforts by Western Slope water partners to keep it there — became the subject of a recent two-day hearing that could decide just who gets water and how much. One of the major points of tension is the objection by several water providers…
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Colorado sports betting brings in big bucks for state water plan projects
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Funding for the state’s 2015 water plan started as a trickle. But sports gaming revenue has now turned that trickle into a steady stream. The Colorado Division of Gaming announced this week that nearly $33.8 million from 2024-25 will be allocated to the Colorado Water Conservation Board to support the state’s water plan, with distribution to…
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Colorado senators push legislation for financial relief for Arkansas Valley Conduit
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A subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Wednesday got its first look at a bill sponsored by Colorado’s two senators that would help finance the Arkansas Valley Conduit. S. 5013 is known as Finish the AVC Act. It would extend the period for repaying the federal government for the…
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Colorado River flows will plummet this water year to 24% of normal: Bureau
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LAS VEGAS ? As the Colorado River crisis deepens, a new federal analysis of flows into Lake Powell shows that they will continue to plummet through 2025, before beginning to partially recover. James Prairie, a hydrologic engineer for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, said flows are likely to be just 24% of average this year, making it…
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Polis moves to revamp team dealing with Colorado River drought crisis
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Under pressure to protect the state’s dwindling supply of Colorado River water from other states with more political clout, Colorado is reshuffling its river leadership team and asking lawmakers to approve $1.9 million in funding for a new policy and technology task force on river issues. The changes include shifting Rebecca Mitchell from her role…
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Summer monsoons improve Colorado’s drought conditions, represent ‘drops in the bucket’
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The best summer for precipitation since 2014 produced rare optimism among one of the state’s water watchers, but it is tempered with concerns about a third straight La Niña fall, which is likely to bring hotter and drier conditions. And that isn’t good for winter snowmelt, because those conditions leave soils drier. In turn, that dry…
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A LOOK BACK | Kennedy marks historic Colorado water project; legislator comments on party switch
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Sixty Years Ago This Week: Seventy-five thousand Coloradans arrived in Pueblo to join President John F. Kennedy as he marked the successful completion of a 30-year campaign for congressional approval of the FryingPan-Arkansas Project. The $171 million project involved importing spring snowmelt and runoff from the Western Slope to the Arkansas River-Basin on the Eastern…
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Hickenlooper-Barrasso bill aims to reauthorize Colorado River water conservation plan
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U.S. Sens. John Hickenlooper and John Barrasso are teaming up on legislation to help the upper basin states of the Colorado River in their quest to meet the demands by the Bureau of Reclamation to conserve water. The legislation from the Denver Democrat and Wyoming Republican would reauthorize the System Conservation Pilot Program through 2026, to…
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Colorado water plan gets $17 million boost from state oil and gas revenues
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While prices at the gas pump — and a cutback in Russian oil tied the invasion of Ukraine — have created headaches in Colorado and around the world, there’s a silver lining: a boost in the money available for the state’s water plan. Increases in oil and gas prices, as well as boosted production in Colorado, have resulted…
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Colorado tells Lower Basin states: Cut your water use to meet federal demand to conserve
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Colorado has no plans to make additional cuts to water use next year to meet the Bureau of Reclamation’s demand to conserve millions of acre-feet of water, a step needed to preserve power production in Lake Powell and Lake Mead. Instead, Colorado officials insists that other states should do the cutting. “I think that at…
