|
|
Saturday, January 12, 2008
|
|
| |
The BLM is hoping to swap land for water rights down in the San Luis Valley, according to The Monte Vista Journal. From the article:
The Bureau of Land Management's San Luis Valley office is advancing an unusual proposal to swap land for water rights. The BLM hopes to exchange up to 10 parcels of land -- about 2,693 acres -- in Rio Grande County for 189.8 acre feet of water annually from Anderson Ditch at Monte Vista to augment well pumping on the Blanca Wildlife Habitat Area, managed by the BLM in partnership with the Colorado Division Wildlife, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Ducks Unlimited and other conservation groups. The existing Blanca WHA wells must be made legal by Dec. 3, 2008 and the BLM said the proposed acquisition of water rights will not be an expansion of the Wetlands.
Blanca WHA is an official mitigation site for wetland losses caused by the Bureau of Reclamation's construction and operation of its Closed Basin Project, and BLM and its cooperators have invested several million dollars in restoration and improvement of wildlife habitat in the San Luis Valley, including the historic wetlands of the Blanca area. Once dry lakebeds, the 9,700-acre wildlife area is a series of ponds and wetland sites that include fresh water marshes/meadows, alkali mar-shes/meadows and playa lakes that provide nesting habitat for migratory waterfowl and shore birds. It is also used for hiking, fishing, hunting and wildlife watching. Water for the Blanca WHA comes from artesian wells and the Closed Basin canal. Under state law, the BLM, like other well users, is required to replace water depleted from streams and rivers by the wells. The Division of Wildlife has temporarily provided the water for augmentation until more secure water rights are in place. The Anderson Ditch water would give the BLM a permanent source for augmentation. The BLM explains that the water rights have very senior priority on the Rio Grande and their acquisition would bring BLM into full compliance with Colorado water law. The water is diverted from the Rio Grande into the Anderson Ditch near Del Norte and comprises about seven percent of the total adjudicated ditch water rights. Divide District Ranger Tom Malecek, manager of the BLM Del Norte Field Office, said earlier that the BLM is proposing to swap some isolated parcels of land for water rights because it does not have funds to purchase the water rights outright...
The BLM parcels proposed for the trade were identified in the agency's 1991 San Luis Valley Resource Management Plan as being suitable for disposal by sale or trade. No unpatented mineral or mining claims exist on the parcels, the lands are not fenced or grazed and the parcels have little or no recreational value, according to the plan. The federal government would reserve all mineral rights on the parcels. Sun Peaks Land Co., which owns the water rights, has proposed exchanging the water rights for the parcels, estimated to be of equal value. Sun Peaks is a limited liability company registered with the Colorado Secretary of State. The company's registered agent is Don E. Toews, who lists a Center address. Sun Peaks reportedly plans to convert the lands irrigated by the ditch water into a residential development. Transferring the water rights to BLM would not affect Anderson Ditch water rights owned by other parties. The BLM is seeking public comment on the proposed exchange. More information is available online at www.blm.gov/co/st/en/ fo/slvplc.html, or by contacting Sue Swift-Miller in the La Jara Field Office, 274-8971 or Tom Malecek in the Divide Field Office at 657-3321. Written comments should be mailed before Feb. 2, 2008 to Swift-Miller at the La Jara Field Office, 15571 CR T-5, La Jara, CO 81140. Comments may be faxed to Swift-Miller at 274-6304.
Thanks to SLV Dweller for the link. More Coyote Gulch coverage here.
Category: Colorado Water
8:38:48 PM 
|
|
From The Crested Butte News, "Crested Butte town attorney John Belkin asked the Town Council for a five-month extension to a temporary moratorium preventing development within the town's watershed, as revisions to an outdated ordinance have not been completed...The council agreed additional time was needed and voted unanimously to set Ordinance No. 2 Series 2008 -- an ordinance extending the temporary moratorium on all development in the town's watershed -- for a public hearing on Tuesday, January 22. The moratorium originally took effect in August. The ordinance enacted a temporary moratorium on all development in the watershed feeding into the Town of Crested Butte. That region falls within an area designated by Gunnison County as an area of state interest and is subject to the county permitting process. However, because the area falls within the town's watershed as well, the municipality has the authority to review developments that have the potential to pollute local waterways. The ordinance states that the town's existing watershed ordinance, adopted in 1978, is inadequate in regulating the protection of the environment and the public health, safety and general welfare of residents and visitors to town. The moratorium restricts all development, defined as any activity that disturbs or modifies the condition of the surface or subsurface land or water in the town's watershed."
Category: Colorado Water
10:39:47 AM
|
|
From The Glenwood Springs Post Independent (free registration required), "An environmental organization says state data about oil and gas company wastewater ponds in western Colorado shows the ponds are 'posing greater risks to human health than previously thought'...The data was gathered after violations of clean air laws were reported at several evaporation ponds, according to the group. Rocky Mountain Clean Air Action, citing the state's data, said Williams Production RMT reported that as much as 268 tons of hydrocarbons per year were released at its Grand Valley Facility in Garfield County - or nearly 10 times the amount previously thought. The group also said that Williams' Rulison facility released 88 tons per year of hazardous air pollutants."
More coverage from The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. They write:
Rocky Mountain Clean Air Action announced Monday it studied state data on seven evaporation ponds owned by Black Mountain Disposal, Williams Production and EnCana and concluded that the ponds are major polluters that emit more benzene, toluene, methanol and other contaminants than had been reported previously. Black Mountain, the group claims, releases as many as 27.22 tons of methanol into the air annually, while Williams releases as many as 268 tons of hydrocarbons from its Grand Valley evaporation ponds in Garfield County. Another 88 tons, the group claims, are emitted from Williams' Rulison ponds...
But that's not necessarily true, said Christopher Dann of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's Air Pollution Control Division, whose data Rocky Mountain Clean Air Action analyzed. The state asked EnCana, Williams and Black Mountain to provide pond water sampling data for the last six months of 2007 in order to find out what kinds of pollutants the ponds would emit if they were completely drained and dried. That situation would allow all the pollutants to become airborne, "which we know is not happening," Dann said. In other words, he said, the pollution is entirely hypothetical and does not present a threat to public health. "Are (the pollutants) being emitted to the air? The answer is no," Williams Air Quality Practice Manager Rick Matar said. "These are not air emissions." Once the state obtained the data from the energy companies, Dann said, it immediately turned it over to environmentalists to comply with their open-records request. "We have not had adequate time to go through that data yet ourselves," Dann said, adding he cannot verify any of the environmentalists' claims, and it's too early for the state to draw any conclusions about how harmful the ponds are. Matar called Rocky Mountain Clean Air Action's statistics inflammatory and said they represent a generalized worst-case scenario.
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
10:35:08 AM
|
|
Aurora is learning that they'll never make people happy when setting water rates. Here's a report about the rate roller coaster there from The Aurora Sentinel. From the article:
Angry residents expressed doubts Wednesday night, Jan. 9, that city officials could revamp Aurora's water rate system in a fair and equitable manner. "It's costing me more money for my water. The (rate) structures are really unbelievable," said Robbie Hunter. Hunter and a number of other residents expressed frustration with the 2007 rate increase at a the second city-held meeting this week to gather feedback from residents about possible fixes to the rate system. Hunter said a flat rate structure, where every resident pays the same amount for each 1,000 gallons of water used, is the only fair solution. But city officials said they're considering four different tiered rate structures to replace the tiered rate structure that caused many residents to see their bills significantly increase this summer. The city will hold its final public input meeting about water rates at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 10, in city hall, with the eventual goal of revising the rate structure by April 1...
The rate increase is designed to help fund the city's $750-million water project [Prairie Waters] as well as maintain existing infrastructure. The city has also raised the price of tap fees - the amount developers pay to connect new homes to the existing water system. But some residents said they're still worried that they're paying for growth through the increased fees. Deputy City Manager Nancy Freed said that Aurora's growth rate of 1.7 percent is lower than the state average. Others residents worried that they won't be able to afford high water rates, but must still comply with Aurora's requirement that 50 percent of their front lawns are covered in plant material. City officials said Aurora offers rebates for water-conserving landscaping. One resident quipped that he wouldn't live long enough to recoup the cost of landscaping through water savings even if he took advantage of Aurora's rebate program. City officials are hoping to collect all interested residents' comments before a Water Policy Committee meeting Jan. 15.
More Coyote Gulch coverage here and here.
Category: Colorado Water
10:23:17 AM
|
|
Las Animas is looking for dough to help replace aging water infrastructure, according to The Pueblo Chieftain. From the article:
The city of Las Animas is seeking $500,000 through the Arkansas Basin Roundtable to repair its crumbling water system. The roundtable approved sending two requests to the Colorado Water Conservation Board. A $300,000 grant would be part of a $2.4 million project to plug leaks, replace lead pipes and increase reliability by adding a generator to the water delivery system. The town of about 2,600 is expected to grow to more than 3,000 by 2030, largely because of expansion of a private prison. Average daily water use is expected to increase 25 percent to 546,000 gallons per day. "There has been an influx of correctional facilities and that's likely to continue," Jason Meyer, of GMS Engineering, told the roundtable. A separate grant of $200,000 would be put toward a $1.2 million project to make major repairs to the wastewater treatment system...
The projects are receiving heavy funding from Department of Local Affairs grants, loans from the Colorado Water Resources and Power Development Authority and the Department of Public Health and Environment. The local share of $400,000 for water supply and $150,000 will be recouped through service charges to customers, Meyers said. Las Animas has already gone to some expense in securing a water supply, installing reverse-osmosis equipment to remove solids...
Gary Barber, roundtable president, directed Las Animas officials to meet with some of those who raised concerns to incorporate them in the final application that's submitted to the state. The concerns will also be attached to the letter from the roundtable that accompanies the grant application. Harold Miskel, the basin's CWCB representative, said the application has to be tied to meeting the gap identified by the Statewide Water Supply Initiative, according to legislation that formed the roundtables and controls its funding procedures. "We've turned several of these down," Miskel noted. "You can make the argument, especially in the Arkansas River basin, that improvements will make more water available for consumption to fill the gap and meet other needs." Dave Stone, who represents the Limon area, asked why Las Animas has such low tap fees, when they are considerably higher in Limon. Meyers said Las Animas has few new taps, saying the private prison expansion would only be an extension of existing service. "The city's focus is not to increase water rates, so they will have enough debt capacity for the (Arkansas Valley) conduit," Meyers said...
The grant requests are the largest yet considered by the roundtable, which so far has tapped state funds, generated by mineral severance taxes, for $515,000. The CWCB is expected to consider the funding request at its March meeting.
Category: Colorado Water
10:08:50 AM
|
|
Here's a recap of Tuesday's meeting of the Arkansas Valley Conduit Advisory committee meeting from The La Junta Tribune Democrat. From the article:
A recommendation concerning the allocation of municipal project water east of Pueblo raised some questions from Arkansas Valley Conduit Advisory Committee members Tuesday. The committee is recommending that municipal project water east of Pueblo - a total of 12 percent - be allocated to those entities east of Puebo based on population from the 2000 census as a baseline with adjustments for such things as correctional facilities and other factors. If all the entities listed on the table request a full allocation then the percentage of the total population shall be the maximum allowable allocation for each entity. However, the draft proposal states, if all entities do not request an allocation or only portion of the full allocation, the percentages will be determined by the ratio of the total 2000 population of each of the remaining requesting entities to the total 2000 population of all of the remaining entities. For example, in the draft recommendation, the city of La Junta's population in 2000 was 7,568. The city of La Junta would receive 14.83 percent of the project water east of Pueblo. The city of Las Animas' population is 3,568 and the percentage would be 6.99. The town of Fowler's population is 1,206 and its percentage would be 2.36. The town of Cheraw, with a population of 211, would receive 0.41 percent.
Bill Long, president of Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District, said the goal behind the draft recommendation is to give each entity participating firm numbers to work with and to take to each of their boards and councils to present. He added that a resident of Las Animas and Bent County, he wants to lock in a number now. Joe Kelley with the city of La Junta agreed. "I want a specific number to know if we have enough water and to know what (the city of La Junta) have to do if there's not," Kelley said...
The conduit advisory committee will make a final decision of their recommendation during the March meeting after each participating entity has the opportunity to review the recommendation and the numbers associated with the allocation. This is strictly a recommendation but not a determining proposal. Long said letters will be sent to participating municipalities and water companies concerning the allocation.
More Coyote Gulch coverage here.
Category: Colorado Water
9:49:44 AM
|
|
From The Rocky Mountain News, "Arctic ice could start melting faster and faster, lifting sea levels and speeding the way to a warmer future, a new study suggests. The old, thick ice that lasts year after year in the Arctic Ocean is giving way to younger, thinner ice that doesn't last the summer season, says James Maslanik, a researcher at the University of Colorado. 'This thinner, younger ice makes the Arctic much more susceptible to rapid melt,' said Maslanik, of CU's Colorado Center for Astrodynamic Research. Each year the phenomenon makes it much more difficult to reestablish the sea ice conditions of the 1970s or 1980s. Maslanik's study shows there has been a nearly complete loss of the oldest, thickest snow. Of the remaining perennial ice, 58 percent is only two or three years old. Twenty-two years ago, only about a third of the ice was that young and thin."
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
9:37:21 AM
|
|
From The Fort Collins Coloradoan, "The Fort Collins Regional Library District will facilitate a presentation and discussion on the proposed uranium mining project in Weld County from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday in the community room of Harmony Library, 4616 S. Shields St. Representatives from Powertech (USA), which has proposed a mining operation east of Wellington, and Coloradoans Against Resource Destruction, or CARD, and the Colorado Environmental Coalition are expected to present information on the issue. Paul Alexander, director of the Institute on the Common Good at Regis University, Denver, will moderate the discussion. Public comment will be limited to written questions on note cards and time limits may prevent all questions from being submitted to the panelists."
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
9:34:20 AM
|
|
It looks like coalbed methane production does effect groundwater levels, according to The SmallTownPapers News Service. From the article:
A recent study regarding coalbed methane (CBM) wells' impact on stream depletion suggests gas drilling is having a measurable effect on the waters of the two-state Raton Basin. The Colorado Department of Natural Resources (CDNR) and its contractor, S.S. Papadopulos and Associates, gave a public presentation Friday at Trinidad State Junior College of a draft report of the study, "Coalbed Methane Stream Depletion Assessment Study - Raton Basin, Colorado," [pdf]. The presentation was attended in large part by concerned landowners eager to know the effects on the water supply of the numerous CBM wells placed throughout the basin by energy companies.
More coverage from Red Orbit. From the article:
Water depletion due to coal bed methane drilling in the Raton Basin will not be a problem, according to a report released by the Colorado Department of Natural Resources. A final draft of the coal bed methane stream depletion assessment study [was] made available for public review and comment at a meeting [Friday] at Trinidad State Junior College. The study also is available online. The study estimated that stream depletion from all methane wells in the Colorado Raton Basin is around 2,500 acre-feet per year. The report stated that at that rate, groundwater removed by methane wells within 100 years would not deplete natural stream flow by more than one-tenth of a percent of that amount per year. The study did not evaluate production or well spacing issues, climate influences on streams and springs, or the impact of other water extraction activities within the basin.
More Coyote Gulch coverage here.
Category: Colorado Water
9:30:47 AM
|
|
The Friends of the River Uncompahgre hope to get the Division of Wildlife and Colo. State Parks' to buy the Burial Tree Ranch for open space and recreation, according to The Montrose Daily Press. From the article:
A Ouray County property rich with conservation potential is up for sale and a local citizens group is appealing for public support to purchase it. The Friends of the River Uncompaghre is taking the lead in organizing support for the purchase of Ouray County's Burial Tree Ranch, which is on the market at an asking price $4.975 million, said FORU member Jim Haugsness...
If the property is purchased, FORU proposes the creation of a bike/trail system that would run from Montrose to Ouray, said Haugsness. Burial Tree Ranch has been on the market for about three years, said Todd Schroedel, of United Country Sneffels Realty...
If the state does not buy the parcel, FORU said the property is likely to be split up into 35-acre ranchettes. The result would be limited access to the property and its features, overcrowding of Ridgway State Park and no public oversight of important cultural and historic areas on the property, the group noted. Haugsness said the chance to purchase the ranch is unique because it provides an opportunity for two state agencies to work together to buy piece of property for public use. The property is located 15 miles south of Montrose and 10 miles north of Ridgway.
Category: Colorado Water
9:08:44 AM
|
|
Palisade is going to have to prove that their proposed whitewater park will not adversely impact endangered species habitat and migration, according to The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. From the article:
Palisade's hopes for a whitewater park in the Colorado River are dancing on a razorback's edge. Officials hope by Friday to have completed a computer model that will show the razorback sucker, an ooze-guzzling, oddly shaped denizen of the West's muddy rivers, can plug through waters occupied a few feet away by thrill-seeking humans in kayaks, surfboards and other fast-water equipment. Town officials agreed last week to spend about $38,000 on computer modeling showing the whitewater park won't impede the razorback's ability to swim up and down the river. If the modeling can be accomplished quickly, town officials hope to skip through the governmental gauntlet in short order and obtain a permit that would let them begin building their whitewater park this spring. If they persuade the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service the drops and eddies they propose for the park won't endanger the fish, the service will issue a biological opinion. Palisade would take the opinion to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and ask for final action on the town's request for a permit to work in the river.
The whitewater-park design takes into account all the information published by experts on the needs of the endangered fish that inhabit the Colorado River Basin, Sarmo said. The weak link is the razorback sucker, which feeds on river-bottom vegetation and prefers calmer water, said Patty Gelatt, a wildlife and fish biologist with the Fish and Wildlife Service in Grand Junction. Razorbacks can negotiate velocities of 2 to 3 feet per second, Gelatt said, leaving them, in terms of raw athletic ability, well in the wake of the torpedo-shaped, voracious Colorado pikeminnow, the top predator of the river system. The pikeminnow and razorback, along with the humpback and bonytail chubs, are the focus of the effort to restore the native fish of the Colorado River.
To make sure the whitewater park and the razorback can coexist, park designer Gary Lacy spent much of Friday in the chilled, roily waters of the river, dodging ice chunks and putting together a picture of its channels, riffles, hollows, rapids and flats, and the speed that water travels through them all. "Two feet per second is the magic number," Lacy said. He has to be able to assure Palisade, whitewater-park critics and federal regulators that razorbacks in all stages of life will be able to swim upriver through the park. To do that, the fish needs a clear path of water flowing no more than 2 feet per second, or 1.36 mph, with at least 18 inches of water. Darren Shepherd, of Edmonton, Alberta-based Northwest Hydraulic Consultants, will take points of data plotted with a Global Positioning Satellite to draw a picture of the river. He'll feed the information into a computer model to calculate what some 4,000 feet of the river will look like under a variety of flow regimes. It's possible there is no clear path for the razorback now, in which case the whitewater park could prove to be a boon to the bottom-feeder, Shepherd said. Rapids down the main channel at the Grand Valley Irrigation Co. takeout are ripping along about 9 or 10 feet per second, Lacy said after fighting the rapids Friday afternoon. "Those fish are swimming pretty hard continuously to get around these islands today," he said. It will take a couple weeks to prepare the data for the model, then some time to see how it all plays out, Sarmo said. If the survey and computer models work out as he anticipates, Sarmo said he remains optimistic that work on the park could begin this winter. "We might get something in before the high water," he said.
More Coyote Gulch coverage here.
Category: Colorado Water
9:01:11 AM
|
|
Happy 100th birthday to Grand Canyon National Park. We're glad that Reclamation was constrained from building more dams in your canyons. The national park is a treasure for all who experience it. Here's an article about its centennial year from The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. They write:
From the rim of the Grand Canyon, the immensity and splendor of the West is nearly palpable as America's greatest gorge inspires an extreme awe in all who witness it. President Theodore Roosevelt understood that when he protected the Grand Canyon as a national monument a century ago -- Jan. 11, 1908 -- under the Antiquities Act...
The Grand Canyon, inextricably linked to Grand Junction by the Colorado River, became a national park in 1919, but the National Park Service on Friday celebrated the park's centennial as a federal reserve protected from uncontrolled development. The Grand Canyon, once nearly dammed by the Bureau of Reclamation, serves as the conduit for transferring water between the Upper Colorado River Basin and the Lower Colorado River Basin. And the river's management through the canyon, preserving water flows and endangered species, affects many who live upstream, Glenwood Springs water lawyer Jim Lochhead said. Dam development in Grand Canyon is prevented because of its protected status, he said. Meanwhile, Glen Canyon Dam's power generation operations upstream are governed partly by conservation values in the Grand Canyon, he said. "It's appropriate that it remains (undammed) as it is now," Lochhead said, adding the entire Colorado River system and its great canyons have been thrown into a different balance since people began developing it for water use...
"The fact that people 100 years ago recognized the importance of protecting such a place really began the broader acknowledgement of smaller places and more diverse places that also need protection," said Wilderness Society Assistant Regional Director Steve Smith of Glenwood Springs. "It really has led us to the conservation movement and commitment that's so important to this part of the country."
Category: Colorado Water
8:46:38 AM
|
|
Here's a quick look at the future of the Colorado River and some of its history from The Rocky Mountain News. From the article:
The mighty Colorado, which carved out the Grand Canyon and conquered the great deserts of the Southwest, is now threatened by diversions, salinity and the silting and evaporation that haunt its many reservoirs. For 1,450 miles, this river flows through the driest part of the United States, watering Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Southern California and Mexico. Even in the moisture-rich high Rockies, the Colorado flows through a hydraulic landscape of dams and ditches, head gates and tunnels, measuring stations and holding basins.
In southwestern Colorado near the Utah border, towns such as Uravan and Vancorum sprang up in the 1950s on a diet of radium, uranium and vanadium. Now they're radioactive, starving ghost towns infamous as Environmental Protection Agency Superfund cleanups. Mobile homes tucked into mountain valleys and desert canyons are a reminder that the recreational boom on the Western Slope has created a vast new servant class. These transients are carpenters and maids, ski-lift operators and waitresses, nannies and gardeners for the resort areas with their multimillion-dollar second homes.
Category: Colorado Water
8:27:16 AM
|
|
Colorado Springs is hoping to store some of the water that comes down Fountain Creek and its tributaries in times of heavy runoff from snowmelt of storms and exchange it for water they are storing in Pueblo Reservoir, according to The Pueblo Chieftain. From the article:
Colorado Springs has filed an application in Division 2 Water Court to capture flood flows in current and future reservoirs in the Fountain Creek drainage and exchange water from releases at Pueblo Dam. The filing is an attempt to make better use of current reservoirs in Colorado Springs, as well as making more use of reservoirs proposed as part of the Southern Delivery System, said Brett Gracely, water resources manager. "The motivation and constraint is that we sometimes see a lot of snow in the Rampart Range, and there is the opportunity to store it and release it in priority," Gracely said. Opportunities would come during heavy snowfall melt off, such as the city experienced in 2007, or during heavy storms on some tributaries, Gracely added. Use of the plan would be infrequent. The application seeks absolute rights for about 80 acre-feet of water (26 million gallons) the city exchanged through six of its reservoirs in 2007 under an administrative agreement with the Colorado Division of Water Resources. The exchanges occurred during a one-week period in May during runoff. The amount of water gleaned in 2007 is a minuscule part of the city's total supply - less than one-tenth of 1 percent.
Colorado Springs also asks for conditional exchange rights on four other reservoirs in its system, three possible reservoirs envisioned as part of SDS and all future storage that might be developed on Fountain Creek or its tributaries. "We try to be proactive in our water supply program," Gracely said. As part of SDS, a plan to build a 66-inch-diameter pipeline 43 miles north from Pueblo Dam, the city wants to build a terminal storage reservoir in Jimmy Camp Creek and a flow-replacement reservoir at Williams Creek. A second Williams Creek site, farther up in the watershed, is part of one alternative being considered by the Bureau of Reclamation in its environmental impact statement...
Colorado Springs also filed two other applications in December for small storage projects. One would allow the city to hold water in its replacement pond at the Fountain Creek Recovery Project. The project is designed to capture contaminated water from spills at the main wastewater treatment plant on Las Vegas Street and replace flows in Fountain Creek with fresh water. The replacement pond holds 20 million gallons. The other application seeks to allow Colorado Springs to capture up to 72 acre-feet of stormwater (23 million gallons) in Quail Lake in the Cheyenne Mountain area. The lake has a capacity of 319 acre-feet, and the city annually contributes about 50 acre-feet. It's used for recreation, fishing and aesthetics.
More Coyote Gulch coverage here.
Category: Colorado Water
8:19:14 AM
|
|
|
|
© Copyright
2008
John Orr.
Last update:
1/31/08; 9:14:05 AM.
|
|
|
