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Denver Water to seek emergency appeal of judge's ruling on Gross Reservoir expansion in Colorado
Denver Water says it is seeking an emergency appeal to the 10th Circuit in Denver after a judge paused work on the ...
Despite near-normal snowpack, key Colorado River reservoir is expected to see lower spring flows
The amount of snowmelt expected to reach the key reservoirs on the Colorado River this spring is far below the median of the ...
Here’s why 3 decent winters in a row still isn’t enough to fill Lake Powell
The Colorado River and its reservoirs supply water to the 40 million people across the West who rely on the Colorado River.
Arizona Daily Star14d
Water researchers: Low Colorado River reservoirs show 'crisis endures'
The Colorado River’s reservoirs contain their third lowest ... water managers for the basin have made no progress in ...
Steamboat Pilot & Today15d
Predictions for 2025 river flows, reservoir levels slightly below last year
State officials at the Division of Water Resources office in Steamboat Springs are predicting river flows and reservoir ...
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Federal judge halts further work on Denver Water's Gross Reservoir expansion: "Impossible to reconcile"
ordered a permanent injunction prohibiting enlargement of the Gross Reservoir. That includes the planned removal of an estimated 500,000 trees, water diversion from the headwaters of the Colorado ...
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Plan for new reservoir that will flood portion of Northern Colorado highway clears final major hurdle
Fifteen Northern Colorado water districts and communities are celebrating after taking a giant step forward toward building Glade Reservoir. The Northern Integrated Supply Project, or NISP ...
Who will give up their water? Colorado farmers fear a growing city’s need for more to feed development.
The battle over an annexation to Colorado Springs, while it already needs more water to meet projected growth, is a recent ...
Aspen Journalism10d
Dwindling water supply, legal questions push Colorado River into ‘wildly uncharted territory’
Time is ticking for states that share the shrinking Colorado River to negotiate a new set of governing rules. One major ...
The Salt Lake Tribune22d
March storms have boosted snowpack across the West. Here’s why Lake Powell’s outlook hasn’t improved much.
but predictions for runoff into the reservoir this spring remain lackluster. At the start of March, the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center reported that snow levels above Lake Powell were 87% of ...
The Journal16d
Southern Colorado’s ‘dismal’ snowpack has water managers worried
wildfires and reservoir levels, officials said during a Water Conditions Monitoring Committee meeting Tuesday. One of those experts is Pat McDermott, who is based in the Upper Rio Grande Basin in ...