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Cost to water crops could nearly quadruple as San Luis Valley fends off...
Hundreds of growers in Colorado’s San Luis Valley could see their water costs nearly quadruple under a new plan designed to slash agricultural water use in the drought-strapped region. A new rule...
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Hundreds of formerly federally regulated Colorado wetlands and streams are...
What’s the best way to protect hundreds of acres of wetlands and streams in Colorado, in the absence of federal rules that once did that work? It’s one of the biggest water issues facing state...
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Colorado farmers find plenty of sweet deals at $4.7 million Front Range water...
LONGMONT — It is 10:16 a.m. on Valentine’s Day. More than 100 people are gathered in a sprawling room at the Boulder County Fairgrounds. Pencils, notebooks, calculators, auction catalogs and...
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Resolution backing efforts to restore Grand Lake’s clarity expected at...
Colorado lawmakers are expected to take up a resolution Monday backing efforts to restore Grand Lake, the state’s deepest natural lake once known for its clear waters. Advocates hope, if the...
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Farms that feed migrating sandhill cranes in Colorado are in it for the long...
Story first appeared in: Mike Schaefer and his family have spent a lifetime adoring the sandhill cranes that swoop into the San Luis Valley each spring and fall, crowding the sky and luring thousands...
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Does your Colorado town have PFAS in its water? There’s help for that.
Nearly $86 million in federal funding to help small Colorado communities with the daunting task of removing so-called “forever chemicals” from their drinking water systems will begin flowing this...
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More stringent wetlands, stream oversight proposed as Colorado lawmakers aim...
Colorado lawmakers will consider a fresh proposal to grant the state authority to oversee streams and wetlands left unprotected by a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year. House Bill 1379 — sponsored...
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Don’t complain about Colorado’s next big rainstorm. Its aftermath could help...
Drought-challenged U.S. communities are overlooking what could be a major source of relief: stormwater, which generates more water annually than is stored in lakes Mead and Powell, the largest...
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Major Arkansas Valley water district votes to oppose purchase of farm water...
A major southern Colorado water district voted unanimously last week to oppose an $80.4 million agricultural water purchase by Aurora in the Arkansas Valley, saying the deal violates a 2003 agreement...
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Colorado voters may be asked to send more sports betting money to water projects
Colorado voters may be asked to let more money flow to water projects by allowing the state to keep all of the sports betting tax revenue it collects, if a measure referring the issue to the November...
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Aurora Water eyes its biggest storage bucket yet
Fast-growing Aurora plans to develop a new 200-acre site high in scenic Park County to build the largest reservoir in its system. The $600 million-plus Wild Horse Reservoir project would store 93,000...
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Colorado to shield thousands of acres of wetlands, miles of streams after...
Thousands of acres of Colorado wetlands and miles of streams, left unprotected by a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year, would be shielded under a hard-won measure that was approved this week by a...
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Colorado lawmakers passed 10 new water measures this year. These are the...
Colorado lawmakers gave the thumbs-up to 10 water measures this year that will bring millions of dollars in new funding to help protect streams, bring oversight to construction activities in wetlands...
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Fast-growing northern Colorado wins $250 million in loans for new dam,...
Fast-growing northern Colorado won approval for two major water loans from the state this month that will help finance a new dam outside Loveland and a major regional water project northwest of Fort...
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Colorado’s new wetlands protections lead the nation 1 year after EPA rules...
One year after the U.S. Supreme Court removed federal regulations protecting wetlands and streams from development pressures in its Sackett v. the EPA decision, Colorado is the first state in the...
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Oops! 40,000 acre-feet of water slipped through the cracks at Lake Powell
As the drought-strapped Colorado River struggled to feed water into Lake Powell to keep its massive storage system and power turbines from crashing in 2021 and 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation,...
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Colorado tribes want to get into lucrative online sports betting. But a...
Colorado tribes want to offer online sports betting. But their tax status, and other issues, has some people worried that allowing the Southern Ute and Ute Mountain tribes to offer remote wagering on...
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Big city water buy-ups in the Lower Arkansas Valley are raising alarms as...
Story first appeared in: OLNEY SPRINGS — From satellite view, the land north of the Arkansas River is a seemingly random checkerboard of vital green and desperate brown, quickly fading from a few...
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Large number of customers starting lawn-watering cycles on Mondays is...
Denver-area homeowners and businesses, in their race to start their automatic sprinklers at 5 a.m. on Monday mornings, are putting unprecedented stress on Denver Water’s delivery system, threatening...
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Long-dormant dam proposal gets renewed attention as Colorado water district...
A controversial 53-year-old plan to build a major dam above Lyons is drawing renewed attention as a northern Colorado water district seeks to maintain its right to use the water associated with the...
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