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Monday, April 14, 2008
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From The Sky-Hi Daily News: "State grants totaling $247,000 will help remove sediment from the Fraser River. This summer the funding will be used to create a D-shaped berm to slow the speed of the river in the Fraser River Settling Pond, located across from the Mary Jane entrance. A new access road and truck turnaround will also be installed for maintenance vehicles so there is no traffic over Denver Water's diversion pipe. The pond's bottom will be layered with 6 inches of gravel and topped with 18 inches of cobble as well. Work will start Sept. 1, and the project is scheduled to be completed by Oct. 10, said Kirk Klancke, East Grand Water Quality chairman and Winter Park Ranch Water & Sanitation District manager. In fall 2009 the pond will be drained for maintenance and sediment will be removed to a Grand County gravel pit. CDOT will spend up to $40,000 to drain the pond each year, Klancke said. 'It's a huge commitment on their part.'"
Category: Colorado Water
7:27:37 PM 
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From email from Reclamation (Kara Lamb):
Reclamation has extended the public comment period on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Southern Delivery System by 45 days. The additional 45 days make the new deadline for public comments June 13, 2008.
Over the past two weeks, Reclamation held six public open houses to collect comments from the public and to facilitate one-on-one discussions of the draft EIS and its technical reports. The technical reports were made available to the public on January 29, 2008.
Supporting documents, technical reports and the entire DEIS are available on-line at www.sdseis.com. A copy of the DEIS Summary, which includes a compact disk of the full DEIS, is also available from Kara Lamb at Reclamation.
To submit written comments on the DEIS, please e-mail, fax or regular mail to: klamb@gp.usbr.gov
(970) 663-3212
Bureau of Reclamation
11056 W. CR 18E
Loveland, CO 80537
For additional questions on the DEIS, or to request a copy of the DEIS Summary, please contact Kara Lamb at (970) 962-4326.
Category: Colorado Water
6:39:15 PM
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From The Cortez Journal: "For 2008, the Cortez area has accumulated 4.91 inches of moisture, which is 116 percent of the 30-year average, 4.23 inches, through April, Andrus said."
More coverage from The Leadville Chronicle: "...snowpack in the Arkansas River valley is at 162 percent of the 30-year average, and spring runoff is projected to reach 147 percent of the 30-year average."
More snowpack news from The Pagosa Daily Post:
The snow survey measurements completed by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for the April 1 streamflow forecasts show that the snowpack for San Juan Basin, which covers most of Southwest Colorado, is still above average at 126%. The statewide snowpack is also above average at 123%. Snowpack levels have dropped due to warm dry weather during March. Measurements from the Upper San Juan Sno-Tel site located west of Wolf Creek Pass summit at an elevation of 10,130-ft. shows a water content of 37.5 inches. This is 115% of the long-term average 32.5 inches. Last year, at this time the site was 55% of long term average. The Wolf Creek Summit Sno-Tel site at an elevation of 11,000 ft. has a water content of 44.6 inches, which is 130% of the long-term average of 34.2 inches. At this time last year, the site was 83% of average. The Vallecito Sno-Tel site located near Vallecito Lake at an elevation of 10,880 ft shows a water content of 25 inches. This is 128% of the long-term average of 19.6 inches. Last year the site was 45% of average.
Category: Colorado Water
6:36:44 AM
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Here's an update on the Northern Integrated Supply Project from Fort Collins Now. From the article:
Three new water storage reservoirs in northern Colorado have moved closer to reality. The Environmental Impact Statement on the Northern Integrated Supply Project will be released April 30 and public hearings on that statement will be conducted in Fort Collins and Greeley in mid-June, officials with the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District said Wednesday. The environmental statement on the Windy Gap Firming Project, which calls for the construction of a new reservoir west of Carter Lake -- about nine miles southwest of Loveland -- should be ready for public viewing by the end of May. The Northern Integrated Supply Project -- NISP -- involves the construction of the Glade Reservoir, which would store 170,000 acre-feet of water, northwest of Fort Collins, and the Galeton Reservoir, east of Ault, which would store 40,000 acre-feet. Glade would supply an additional 40,000 acre feet of water to 400,000 people, said Carl Brouwer, project manager. He was one of the featured speakers at the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District's spring water users meeting which drew about 150 at the University of Northern Colorado...
It's companion project is the South Platte Water Conservation Project, which Brouwer called the "workhorse of NISP" and involves taking water off the South Platte during the winter and pumping it to the Galeton Reservoir. Two major northern Colorado irrigation companies would then use that water for irrigation, freeing up the Poudre River water stored in Glade, for municipal and industrial use.
The Chimney Hollow Reservoir is planned west of Carter Lake and would store 90,000 acre-feet of Windy Gap Project water from the Western Slope, said Jill Boyd of the water district. Windy Gap was completed by Northern's sub-district in 1985, and moves water through Lake Granby to northern Colorado partners, such as the city of Greeley. Chimney Hollow is designed to provide a more reliable storage for that water, Boyd said. The district and Larimer County paid $7 million for the land west of Carter. Larimer will have recreation rights on the reservoir and surrounding open space once completed. Construction is planned to start in 2011 and water will be ready for delivery by 2015 or 2016.
More Coyote Gulch coverage here and here.
Category: Colorado Water
6:32:25 AM
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John Orr.
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