Water Talks: The Crisis of the Colorado River System
It should be obvious to anyone – trying to fill a bathtub with the drain wide open is foolish.
It should be obvious to anyone – trying to fill a bathtub with the drain wide open is foolish.
The weekly River Report from the Arkansas River Watershed Collaborative notes that the monsoon weather pattern brought slight improvement to drought conditions across the Arkansas Basin.
Monsoonal weather continued during the past week, ending drought conditions in southern Chaffee County and continuing to lessen drought severity across the Arkansas Basin.
A draft of the updated Colorado Water Plan was released Wednesday, June 30, and is available for public review online and at each Colorado county seat. Public comments will be accepted through Sept. 30.
Colorado saw the return of monsoon weather patterns this past week, bringing welcome precipitation to the Arkansas Basin.
The weekend brought welcome precipitation to parts of the Arkansas Basin, but the U.S. Drought Monitor continues to show varying levels of drought across the river basin.
Gov. Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 22-114 into law Wednesday, authorizing the designation of fire-suppression ponds that will be exempt from the Prior Appropriation System established by the Colorado Constitution.
Spring runoff appears to have peaked for 2022 while May precipitation lessened drought severity across Colorado and the Arkansas River Basin, according to the weekly River Report from the Arkansas River Watershed Collaborative.
Wetter weather patterns have tempered drought conditions in the upper Arkansas Basin and boosted snowpack, but the latest U.S. Drought Monitor report shows Extreme to Exceptional drought across southeast Colorado.
Douglas County Commissioners decided not to continue pursuing the controversial Renewable Water Resources proposal to pipe groundwater from the northern San Luis Valley across Chaffee County to the Front Range.
Colorado welcomed a weekend storm that brought snow and rain across the Arkansas River Basin.
Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District board approved 32,848 acre-feet of West Slope water allocations.