Thursday, May 12, 2005

Recreational Water Rights Steamboat Pilot: "The city of Steamboat Springs has reached a settlement with those opposing its recreational water right application. The settlement appeases major entities in the Yampa Valley that have protested the city's filing for a recreational water right, leaving the Colorado Water Conservation Board as the last major opponent to the filing...According to Colorado's first-in-time, first-in-right water system, owners of senior water rights can place a call on the river to prevent upstream users, who filed for water rights after them, from using that water. That water is then passed downstream for the senior water-right holder to use." Thanks to MakesMeRalph for the link. Category: Colorado Water 9:09:11 PM     Cutthroats get a break Aspen Times: "Sucking water out of Pitkin County's mountains for the Front Range is actually going to help a native fish in the upper Fryingpan River drainage this summer. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is going to divert as much water as possible from a somewhat obscure stream in the upper Fryingpan River drainage in August to help wildlife officials save a pure strain of Colorado cutthroat trout. Don't tell the utilities. Let it run down the Arkansas for a change. We here on the Front Range will take the browns and the rainbows too. Thanks to MakesMeRalph for the link. Category: Colorado Water 7:56:57 PM     Water Away! Denver Water is going back to voluntary watering restrictions, according to the Rocky Mountain News [May 12, 2005, "Water limits ease"]. From the article, "The Denver Water Board unveiled a largely voluntary summer watering program Wednesday, but said it would work harder to ensure that conservation gains won during the drought will continue. The plan is a major change from last year, when a dry spring prompted the agency to impose tough, mandatory watering rules and stiff surcharges for high water use...Although mountain areas critical to Denver's water system saw below-average snowpack once again this year, the agency said its reservoirs are likely to reach more than 90 percent of capacity by July, the highest levels seen since 2003." Here's the coverage from the Denver Post [May 12, 2005, "Denver Water loosens spigot"]. Category: Colorado Water 6:57:18 AM

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