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Why is Aurora in drought, but not Denver?
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While the city of Aurora already implemented drought restrictions for 2023, next door, the city of Denver doesn’t expect to declare a drought this year. The tale of two cities left some in Aurora scratching their heads, and the city’s drought restrictions garnered pushback from at least two of the city’s councilmembers. Aurora poised to…
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Colorado’s age-old water doctrine pushed to the brink by drought
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Editor’s Note: This story is a collaborative report by Fresh Water News working with nine other Colorado news outlets. In Evans, four miles south of Greeley, houses are shooting up. Once a quiet farm town, Evans is scrambling to come up with enough water to slake the thirst of hundreds of new homeowners, drawn here…
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Gov. John Hickenlooper to be recognized by Trout Unlimited for river conservation efforts
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Trout Unlimited this week announced Gov. John Hickenlooper will be recognized for his contributions to conservation for state rivers and streams. The 2018 River Stewardship award will be presented to Hickenlooper Thursday, for his actions both as Denver mayor and as Colorado governor. In 2007, according to a statement from Trout Unlimited, the Denver chamber…
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Dick Wolfe, a friend to many, receives Friend of the South Platte Award
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Dick Wolfe received an award last week that best sums up his relationship with Colorado’s water community, friend. Kevin Rein, the state water engineer, presented the Friend of the South Platte award to his predecessor, Dick Wolfe, who retired from the job in June after 10 years in the top job and 24 with the…
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New study to show massive volume of water Colorado gives up to other states
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Almost 8 million acre-feet of water has left Colorado in the past 20 years that the state could have kept, according to preliminary data from a legislative-commissioned study expected later this year. It’s enough to make a water warrior cry. An acre-foot of water is about 326,000 gallons of water, or enough to satisfy two…
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Smith: Bill Armstrong was courteous, thoughtful and a true statesman
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“Bill Armstrong is going to be your co-chairman,” Joe Shoemaker said. “Oh no,” I thought. “Not Bill Armstrong.” It was 1998 and former state Sen. Joe Shoemaker had asked me to co-chair a campaign to build an endowment for the Greenway Foundation called the Greenway Preservation Trust Foundation. He had an excellent relationship with then-Denver…
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DelGrosso: Theme of session is ‘missed opportunities’
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From the start of the session, House Republicans identified increasing funding for education and transportation and addressing Colorado’s affordable housing shortage as our top priorities. Unfortunately, our Democrat colleagues did not share our same priorities and instead focused on passing a partisan agenda that penalized, over-regulated, even publicly shamed Colorado’s job creators. Democrats rejected our…
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The Hot Sheet, March 23, 2016
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VOL. 01 NO. 49 | MARCH 23, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright _@JaredWright_ DENVER — Good morning, and a happy Snowpocalypse Wednesday to those of you in the Denver metro area and happy snow day to the Colorado state House and Senate. “Whimps” says veteran state Capitol…
