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Saturday, September 2, 2006
 

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It's hard to wake up on such a cool early fall morning in Denver and think about drought. Coyote Gulch feels a duty to remind all Coloradoans that we're not out of the woods yet. Most of Colorado is still ranging from abnormally dry to extreme drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

We can thank the Southwest Monsoon for reservoir levels holding pretty well up in the mountains. In fact New Mexico and Arizona reservoirs have recovered a good deal as a result of this summer's monsoon. Rodolfo sends us visual proof that the monsoon has also blessed Northern Mexico with summer stream flow.

Category: Colorado Water


8:25:38 AM    

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Pure Cycle Corp has sealed the deal with High Plains A&M, LLC for the purchase of 60,000 acre feet of water, according to Trading Markets.com. From the article, "Friday, morning, Pure Cycle Corp., a provider of water and wastewater reclamation systems, revealed the purchase of about 60,000 acre-feet of Arkansas River water from High Plains A&M, LLC on August 31.The company said it acquired the senior water rights through the purchase of over 21,600 shares of the Fort Lyon Canal along with over 17,500 acres of land in southeastern Colorado. The company had earlier announced this transaction on May 10, 2006. In connection with the acquired assets, the company stated that it issued 3,000,000 shares of restricted common stock to the seller. Further, the company granted the seller the right to receive 10% of tap fees the company receives on the sale of the next 40,000 water taps...

Here's an earlier post from Coyote Gulch.

Category: Colorado Water


8:08:28 AM    

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Should recreation be an officially recognized priority for the Colorado-Big Thompson project? Interested parties are wrestling with the issue, according to the North Forty News. From the article, "Politically speaking, the waters at Horsetooth Reservoir have been pretty choppy this summer. Demands on the resource have been high from all sides, and some feel that recreation is getting short shrift. On one side of the water war, officials claim that the reservoir was managed as well as possible this year, considering the weather and demands from its priority users - agriculture and municipalities. On the other side, a private marina operator and the county parks department are frustrated and looking for answers. This summer's discontent could lead to efforts to recognize recreation as an official priority of the Colorado-Big Thompson project, which includes Horsetooth and other reservoirs. When Congress approved the project in 1937, the defined purposes were to provide water for agriculture and municipal/industrial use and to generate power. 'Nowhere in that scenario is recreation,' said Kara Lamb, spokesperson for the Bureau of Reclamation which owns the C-BT facilities."

Category: Colorado Water


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