Colorado Water
Denver Water will consider asking customers to adhere to voluntary watering restrictions this summer in a meeting today, according to the Rocky Mountain News [February 3, 2004, "Voluntary limits on watering?"]. From the article, "If the board backs the plan, Denver Water's 1.2 million customers will be asked to forgo lawn watering in March and April. At that time, once spring runoff forecasts are complete, Denver Water will decide whether it needs to impose mandatory limits on water use this summer. This winter, statewide snowpack measurements have shown some improvement, measuring 88 percent of average Monday, about 124 percent of where they were last year, according to Mike Gillespie, snow survey supervisor for the Natural Resources Conservation Service. But mountain watersheds that are critical to Front Range supplies remain well below average. Key parts of the South Platte River Basin, where Denver derives about half its supplies, are measuring around 54 percent of average, according to Marc Waage, a water resource engineer at Denver Water." Don't water bluegrass in the desert, good idea.
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