Florida developer Bobby Ginn promised Minturn about $160 million in perks if voters annexed 5,000 acres where he planned a private ski resort with 1,700 homes. A final deal 15 years later could bury the ghost of Ginn with $150,000 and 250 acres in exchange for approval for up to 250 homes.
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Some Western Slope creeks are so clean, groups are working toward Outstanding Waters designations
To get the designation, a steam’s water quality must meet 12 standards for pH, dissolved oxygen, nitrate, E. coli and ammonia, and be under a threshold for seven dissolved metals, including cadmium, copper, lead and silver
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Minturn wrestles with the decade-old promises of a big-dream developer
MINTURN — It’s been more than a decade since Bobby Ginn’s grandiose dream for Minturn collapsed, but the community is still dealing with the fallout. The former railroad town’s council on Wednesday will weigh a proposal to reduce the millions of dollars in perks the bankrupt Florida developer promised Minturn in 2008. A showdown is […]
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Opponents urge federal board to reject revival of Tennessee Pass railroad along Arkansas, Eagle rivers
Opposition to the plan to revive long-dormant rail traffic on Tennessee Pass is growing by the day. Residents of Chaffee, Lake and Eagle counties buried the Surface Transportation Board this month with opposition to the plan proposed by a Texas-based, short-line operator to begin running freight and possibly passengers on tracks that last saw trains […]
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Coroner says 3-year-old boy found in Eagle River accidentally drowned
EAGLE — Authorities have confirmed that a body pulled from the Eagle River in western Colorado is that of a 3-year-old boy who had been missing for nearly a month. Sebastian Rodriguez Castro went missing June 5 near an apartment complex in Eagle where he lived. Hundreds of volunteers and first responders looked for the […]
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Proposal to shrink Holy Cross Wilderness, increase water storage draws hundreds of comments
Forty years after the Holy Cross Wilderness Area was created, an early effort to explore tapping its water supplies has generated more than 500 comments to the U.S. Forest Service. Aurora and Colorado Springs, which own and operate the only reservoir in the area, Homestake I, hope to demonstrate that they can divert more water from […]
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Man, toddler still missing in separate incidents on Colorado’s runoff-swollen rivers
A man and a 3-year-old boy remain missing in Eagle County’s turbid, swollen rivers. Shawn Diaz, a 36-year-old from Denver, has been missing in the Upper Colorado River near Radium since May 31. And 3-year-old Sebastian Castro was last seen in an Eagle apartment complex near the Eagle River late on June 5. More than […]
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Aurora, Colorado Springs own water near Leadville. They may need to redraw a wilderness area to access it.
Aurora and Colorado Springs want to siphon more water from Homestake Creek, even if it requires slightly shrinking the boundary of the Holy Cross Wilderness to build a new reservoir. The cities’ request to drill test holes to better study the viability of a new dam below their Homestake Reservoir comes as Colorado’s congressional delegation […]
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2 women die Friday in Gunnison Basin, bringing Colorado’s spring runoff death toll to at least 5
Two women died in separate accidents Friday in the Gunnison River Basin, bringing the death toll amid spring runoff to at least five people as Colorado waterways rage after a winter of deep snowfall. A Colorado Springs woman, Roberta Sophia Rodriguez, is also missing in the South Fork of the Rio Grande. Authorities say she […]
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“You fall in and you are not getting out”: Rio Grande in southern Colorado closed because of high runoff
DEL NORTE – Water is flowing so high and fast that recreational access to the Rio Grande river has been shut down indefinitely from near the headwaters around Creede through Del Norte, down to Alamosa and beyond. The river hit flood stage in Del Norte Wednesday afternoon, a condition that is forecast to persist at […]