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Saturday, June 11, 2005
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The Colorado Water Quality Commission will be holding hearings next week to study the effects of higher temperatures in streams and the effect on acquatic life, according to the Rocky Mountain News [June 11, 2005, "Fight over streams, fish heats up as hearings on temperature loom"]. From the article, "Over five years in the late 1990s, brown trout populations in a stretch of the Dolores River near Cortez plummeted by two-thirds. The culprit, at least in part was high water temperatures linked to people squeezing off river flows, environmentalists said. Now, for the first time, state regulators are making a stab at preventing such die-offs by setting standards for water temperatures in Colorado's lakes, streams and rivers to aid struggling fisheries...Colorado's water rights laws usually trump water quality regulations. That means it would be difficult to require water diverters to leave more water in depleted steams to keep them cool."
Of course brownies are a non-native species. No one is asking what the fisheries were like before Coloradans dammed, diverted and polluted the rivers. Maybe those details are unknowable.
Category: Colorado Water
7:41:57 AM 
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John Orr.
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