The EPA announced Watershed NP, Inc., will receive a $979,222 Brownfields Cleanup Grant to clean up the 5,450-square-foot former McGinnis Gymnasium at 113 North Court Street in the City of Buena Vista.
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BLM seeks public input on routes in Fremont County
The Bureau of Land Management’s Royal Gorge Field Office is seeking public input on a recent survey of routes in northwest Fremont County. This cataloguing effort will be used to ensure existing routes are identified and to plan future management of the area. “An...
Summer Traffic Season Begins
The Colorado Department of Transportation is reminding drivers to expect additional traffic in many areas of the state for the Memorial Day weekend as the summer travel season gets underway. Heavy traffic is anticipated along the Front Range and mountain highways,...
Chaffee County Public Health Announces New Home Share Coordinator
Chaffee County Public Health is pleased to welcome Janice Brunner to the position of Home Share Coordinator. Janice is a graduate of University of Northern Colorado with a degree in Gerontology. She brings over 20 years of experience working with older adults from...
Water Talks: The Colorado River and the Hydrologic Reality of the Great American Desert
It was a consequential event when the Feds recently announced they would deal with the over-appropriation of water by the Lower Colorado River Basin States (California, Nevada and Arizona) by paying them $1.2 billion to reduce water usage by 2026 by 3 million...
Lower Colorado River Basin states offer to temporarily reduce water use … at a price
As we’ve mentioned before, the Colorado River crisis concerns us here in the Arkansas River Basin because as much as 23% of our river flows are imported from the Colorado River Basin each year. Monday, the Associated Press hailed a “breakthrough proposal” by...
