Colorado

Landowner and recreation groups, together with Trout Unlimited, aren't happy with a decision made late last week by the Colorado Division of Wildlife Commission to endorse a static Upper Colorado River Basin mitigation package submitted in April by Denver Water and Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District.

Grand County residents and other Colorado River advocates want more assurances that two proposed new transmountain diversion projects won’t wipe out trout populations in headwaters streams like the Fraser River .

Citing concerns about impacts to wildlife, especially bighorn sheep, the Colorado Wildlife Commission will oppose the Over the River landscape art project, proposed for the Arkansas River.

Water is an integral part of life in the West, and meeting our future water needs is one of the biggest issues facing all of Colorado. So it’s refreshing to see that a report released this month, “Filling the Gap,” that shows that the Front Range doesn’t need to look to the West Slope to solve its water problems. It has solutions available in its own basin.

Concerns over the health of the entire Upper Colorado River drainage have been magnified in recent months by proposals from Denver Water and Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District to annually draw an additional 45,000 acre feet from the Fraser, Williams Fork and Blue rivers through the Moffat Collection System Project and Windy Gap Firming Project.

In coming decades, Colorado's Front Range will face booming population growth and a "gap" between water supply and water demand. The discussion of options for meeting the gap continues to focus on old ideas including huge trans-mountain pipelines, which are extremely costly and inflict lasting damage on our rivers, streams and wildlife.

Colorado is waking up to the sobering reality that its finite water resources may not keep pace with projected population growth. A recent state-sponsored analysis predicts a "gap" between water supply and the water demands of the nearly 6 million expected inhabitants of the Front Range in 2050...

After years of litigation, the Pagosa Area Water and Sanitation and San Juan Water Conservancy districts have agreed to the terms of a settlement with Trout Unlimited in the case of the proposed Dry Gulch Reservoir.

The Pagosa Area Water and Sanitation District and the San Juan Water Conservancy District have struck a deal with Trout Unlimited, bringing the proposed Dry Gulch Reservoir one step closer to fruition.

Trout Unlimited has signed a draft agreement with
the federal government that would shield the group from liability
in the cleanup of Kerber Creek in Saguache County.