Watershed Damage
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With funding run short, Fountain Creek Watershed District looks to new source
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Editor’s note: The $50 million allotment that started the Fountain Creek Watershed District in 2009 offset impacts to the creek from the Southern Delivery System, a regional water project that moves water north from the Pueblo Reservoir. A special district that has been managing conservation projects on Fountain Creek for nearly two decades is pushing…
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Ranch owner who built 8.5-foot fence in Colorado faces $66K per day fine
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SAN LUIS • A Texas businessman who built an 8.5-foot-high fence partially around his ranch in Colorado’s San Luis Valley could face fines of up to $65,544 per day after state regulators determined runoff from the disturbed land could contaminate area water supplies. The Cielo Vista Ranch, which traces its origins to a Spanish land…
