As the postmortem begins, Colorado River officials and water users say the program should continue even as they wonder if it had enough bang for the buck.
Becky Mitchell
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Colorado’s top water agency hires Lauren Ris as its new director, ready today to face formidable challenges
Ris will lead the Colorado Water Conservation Board in addressing critical water supply, quality issues statewide.
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“Irrefutable truths”: Colorado’s guiding principles going into Colorado River negotiations, according to its top negotiator
Becky Mitchell breaks down her list of priorities, talks transition into full-time negotiator role.
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Jared Polis seeks $1.9 million to revamp Colorado River crisis team
The governor’s proposal calls for leadership change, a dozen new positions and adding $5 million to fund state water plan grants
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It took 10 years to plan a channel around a Colorado River reservoir. Collaboration went well, but urgency was lacking.
GRANBY — Old-timers around here talk about how they used to need to stop after a springtime drive through Byers Canyon to clean all the bugs out of their radiators. So when longtime angler Bud Isaacs noticed the absence of a stonefly hatch on his favorite stretch of the Colorado River below the 445-acre Windy […]
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Southwest states given more time to agree on water cuts to prevent largest reservoirs from reaching critically low levels
Despite giving states more time to negotiate, federal officials said some cuts were coming to parts of the Colorado River Basin
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500,000 acre-feet of water will be released from Flaming Gorge reservoir in Wyoming to protect Lake Powell
Blue Mesa near Gunnison is for the moment safe from letting more water go, but Colorado River Drought Operations Plan says that could change