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Rio Grande dam operator, in hot water with locals, asks state for more cash
A top Colorado water agency in March will consider whether to provide more public money to an irrigation reservoir company that has come under fire for failing to honor promises to aid the Rio Grande....
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Colorado has spent $389M to fund its far-reaching water plans in the past two...
The state has spent $389 million in the past two years on programs designed to help Colorado stave off future projected water shortages even as it continues to grow. During the last two years, from...
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Lower Arkansas Valley growers organize protests against city water transfers
Back in the 1970s, farmers in the Lower Arkansas Valley and across the nation, channeled anger and frustration over low farm prices into a series of large-scale protests, eventually driving their...
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Northern Water may be nearing settlement of lawsuit filed to stop $2 billion...
More than a year after an environmental group sued to stop a $2 billion northern Colorado water project, whispers of a settlement are being heard as the case winds its way through U.S. District Court...
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Another $1.2M awarded to help replace thirsty grass, leaky sprinklers in...
Colorado’s top water agency has awarded nearly $1.2 million in new grants to communities across the state this year as its effort to boost conservation by replacing water-intensive lawns with...
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6% of Colorado land is supposed to be protected by conservation easements....
Story first appeared in: LARKSPUR The landscape of sprawling pastures dotted with ponderosa pines and towering square buttes that bridges Interstate 25 south of Castle Rock and north of Monument is...
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Colorado water project funding is drying up. Here’s what lawmakers are doing...
Colorado lawmakers, worried that a key source of money for water projects is too easily tapped for other programs, want to create a special task force to examine ways to stabilize and boost funding...
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Northern Colorado towns on the hook for $100M reservoir settlement bill...
Fort Morgan has never owned its water supplies. The small farm town on the Eastern Plains has always leased water from whoever had some to spare. But with the recent $100 million settlement of a...
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Do you have an over-loved river in your Colorado town? Help is on the way.
If a river running through your town is overused and underloved, it might be in line for a first-of-its kind statewide restoration program, designed to assess and improve a river’s health, its...
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Small Colorado towns push back as state seeks to clean up wastewater to...
Dozens of small towns in Colorado have banded together to protest new wastewater treatment permits that are designed to protect state rivers and streams, saying they contain new rules that are too...
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