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What’s Underway at the Water Trust

Aug 20, 2020 | Blog, Division, Division 4, Division 5, Division 6, Featured

Happy Summer Friends! Life is surely full of challenges right now. I don’t think any of us could have expected we would spend our 2020 summer dealing with wildfires, drought, and such extreme heat on top of a pandemic. The good news is – Colorado Water Trust is...

Aspen to develop river management plan for upper Fork

Jan 12, 2016 | Article, Division 5

The city of Aspen is seeking consultants to help it prepare a river management plan for the upper Roaring Fork River, which has been plagued in drought years by low flows as it winds through central Aspen. “The city of Aspen plans to study the upper Roaring Fork...

Project aims to restore Roaring Fork flow levels

Aug 31, 2015 | Article, Division 5

Healthy Rivers and Streams bestows $35,000 grant to help fund effort A three-pronged approach to restore local water flows got a shot in the arm on Tuesday when Pitkin County supported a $35,000 Healthy Rivers and Streams grant to help a Front Range nonprofit’s plan...

City of Aspen Gives the Roaring Fork Another Boost

Aug 21, 2014 | Blog, Division 5

For the second year in a row, the City of Aspen has voluntarily closed the headgate of the City-owned Wheeler Ditch in an effort to improve flows in the Roaring Fork River. Flows in the river dropped below 32 cubic feet per second (“cfs”) on Wednesday, August 21,...

West-Slope Colorado Towns Restore Local Flows, Even as Thirsty Front-Range Lawns Drink Their Rivers

Jul 11, 2014 | Article, Division 5

When residents in Denver, Colorado Springs and other cities on the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains turn on their sprinklers to irrigate lawns, they rarely think about the fate of fish in the headwaters of the Colorado River on the other side of the Continental...