Water Talks: The Crisis of the Colorado River System
It should be obvious to anyone; trying to fill a bathtub with the drain wide open is foolish. ...
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Author: Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District
Water Talks: Quantifying Water Right Ownership and the Term “Buy and Dry”
In Colorado, transfer of water from one type of use to another is a historical necessity and will...
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Water Talks: Water Rights Protections and Nestlé Water’s Ruby Mountain Springs Augmentation
Over the past 20 plus years, I have written many articles on water rights and water allocation in...
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Water Talks: Colorado Water Rights as Private Property Rights
The misreading of Section 5, Article 16 of the Colorado Constitution has led many citizens to...
Read MoreCurrent and future challenges to Upper Arkansas Basin Water supplies
Most discussions involving water supply or quality require a good examination of the historical perspective of water development. For this reason, understanding the system by which water is and has been allocated in Colorado...
Read MoreWater Talks: The Hydrologic Divide, water and the west
A veteran of the Civil War, John Wesley Powell, began the exploration of the arid west in 1869 to analyze its unique characteristics. At the time the Western United States was comprised of a group of territories in a landscape...
Read MoreA Community in Need – Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District Responds to Hayden Fire & Flood Recovery
In July 2016, a lightning strike ignited a fire that would burn over 16,000 acres of forest above the community of Coaldale in western Fremont County. Homes, businesses, critical transportation infrastructure, habitats to...
Read MoreWater Talks: Water Education in the Upper Arkansas Valley
by Terry Scanga and Chelsey Nutter, Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District In 2017, the Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District developed a comprehensive education plan to help us expand our outreach and education efforts....
Read MoreWater Talks: Funding the Colorado Water Plan
Statewide funding opportunity supports local needs by Terry Scanga and Chelsey Nutter, Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District Are you aware that Colorado has a Water Plan? Issued by Gov. Hickenlooper in 2014, the Colorado...
Read MoreWater Talks: Protecting Our Water Resources – Monarch Pass Forest and Watershed Health Project
by Terry Scanga and Chelsey Nutter, Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District No doubt fire is on everyone’s mind this summer. It is clear that being proactive with the health of our local forests is imminent. Not only does it...
Read MoreWater conservancy district hosts screening of Arkansas River documentary
The Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District will host a special screening of “The Arkansas River: From Leadville to Lamar” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 18, at the SteamPlant Event Center, 220 W. Sackett Ave., Salida. Admission...
Read MoreWater Talks: Managing Water During Drought
by Terry Scanga, general manager, and Chelsey Nutter, projects manager Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District Excluding the Northwest, lands of the United States west of the 100th meridian have often been coined the “Great...
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