Learn More About The Colorado River District’s Partnership Project Funding Program At Upcoming Webinar Webinar to provide an overview of legislation and funding impacting West Slope water users Join the Colorado River District for a lunch hour webinar focusing on water policy and funding developments that affect West Slope water
2021 Second Quarterly Board Newsletter Topics Include: Colorado River District Funding Program Takes Off With Nearly $400,000 Awarded To Seven West Slope Water Projects Endangered Fish Recovery Seeing Success And Seeking New Funding For Future State And Federal Policy: Infrastructure And Economic Stimulus On Front Burner Colorado River Basin Hydrology Forecasts Paint Grim Picture Legislators
Learn More About The Colorado River District’s Partnership Project Funding Program At Upcoming Webinar Join the Colorado River District to learn more about its new Partnership Project Funding Program during the District’s upcoming Water With Your Lunch webinar. During Water With Your Lunch: Partnership Project Funding Program from noon to 1:15
2021 State And Federal Policy Updates: State Legislature Faces COVID Delays, DC Expands Some Western Water Programs STATE LEGISLATIVE SESSION DELAYED DUE TO COVID-19 Facing a spike in statewide COVID-19 case numbers, leaders of the Colorado Senate and House of Representatives moved to delay the lion’s share of Colorado’s 2021
Board Makes History In Officer Elections; Adds Two New Members For the first time, two women will be leading the District in the fight to protect West Slope water. The Board unanimously elected Director Marti Whitmore of Ouray County to serve as the 21st President of the Colorado River
Learn More About The Colorado River District’s Partnership Project Funding Program At Upcoming Webinar The Colorado River District will double its contributions to a regional cloud seeding program after economic impacts from COVID-19 led to fewer contributions from ski resorts for the program. At January’s regularly scheduled meeting of the Colorado River District’s
Recent Reports Highlight Wall Street’s Renewed Interest In West Slope Water Two decades of drought and the certainty of a hotter, drier future in the Colorado River Basin have generated no shortage of media attention in recent weeks. Two recent articles, however, have created no shortage of controversy on the Western Slope and
Colorado River District Launches Partnership Project Funding Program BOARD APPROVES FUNDING FOR FIRST PARTNERSHIP PROJECT: COLORADO RIVER CONNECTIVITY CHANNEL IN GRAND COUNTY The Colorado River District is kicking 2021 off with the new ability to infuse funding into West Slope projects that protect our water supply. The Colorado River District’s Board of Directors
Brendon Langenhuizen Joins River District Team Brendon Langenhuizen joined the Colorado River District team in October 2020 as a senior water rights engineer. He previously worked at SGM in Glenwood Springs specializing in water rights and water resources engineering. Following John Currier’s retirement, Brendon now serves as the technical staff expert and
Colorado River Basin Lags In Snow, Pushing Big Reservoirs Toward Critical Conditions With a slim snowpack so far and, unless early conditions change significantly, the Colorado River Basin is expected to see poor runoff volumes this spring, which will have negative impacts on our water supply. Snow water equivalent – a measure of
