DENVER IMPOSES FIRST WATER RESTRICTIONS SINCE 1981
Denver water officials have enacted restrictions on water use, joining several other Front Range cities in attempts to cut demand during the worst drought ever recorded. Denver Post; June 26 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=3084>
BUSINESSMEN BUY COLORADO FARMS FOR THEIR WATER
Three businessmen have bought 68 farms along Colorado’s Arkansas River for the water rights, paying about $25 million without revealing their intentions. Denver Post; 6/25 <http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E53%257E693652%257E,00.html>
DRY COLORADO ONCE HOSTED RAINFOREST, STUDY SHOWS
It may be so dry now that forest fires are raging across the state, but Colorado 64 million years ago may have been home to a tropical rainforest, researchers said Thursday. They have excavated a site south of Denver that looks very much like a present-day Amazonian rain forest, full of trees and other plants, the team at the Denver Museum of Nature and Sciences said. <http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/06/06282002/reu_47676.asp>
HYDROLOGY & STORAGE
The unregulated inflow during this year’s April-July runoff is projected at 1.45 maf to Lake Powell Reservoir, 18% of average. The current surface elevation of Lake Powell Reservoir is about 3,644 feet, 56 feet from full pool. Current storage is approximately 16.5 maf (68% of capacity). By the end of the calendar year, the surface elevation of Powell is projected to be below 3,620 feet (over 80 below full pool). The continuing drought has forced the National Weather Service to adjust their projections downward monthly.
RECLAMATION’S CENTENNIAL
Reclamation Commissioner, John Keyes, spoke at a celebration on Hoover Dam on 6/17. “From the beginning, Reclamation has served the values and needs of the American people. And when those values and needs changed, so did we. Although we started as a water development agency, our present and future is water resources management. Our priority will continue to be to deliver water under contract to meet the authorized project purposes.” He continued, “And just as we have done for the last 100 years, Reclamation will continue to respect the primacy of state water rights.” He noted the importance of employing such strategies such as water banking, voluntary water transfers, improving water conservation and management, improving and developing water treatment technologies, and contingency planning for drought in meeting the Bureau’s water management responsibilities. Interior Secretary Gale Norton also spoke. She reiterated a basic principle that the Bureau will follow; namely, “In the West, states allocate the water.”
HAS THE BUREAU OF RECLAMATION MET THE NEEDS OF THE CHANGING WEST?
When President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Reclamation Act of 1902, he gave a new government agency the unambiguous charge to go forth and make the desert bloom by bringing water to family farms. The idea, says University of Oklahoma historian Donald Pisani, was to boost the West out of the depression of the 1890s by helping populate the vast empty lands with yeomen farmers, considered the foundation of democracy. <http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/06/06182002/ap_47575.asp> <http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,405012424,00.html?>
DROUGHT PUTS FOCUS ON WISDOM OF FARMING IN THE DESERT
Farmers and politicians call Utah’s fourth straight year of below-average snowpack a disaster. But a University of Utah political science professor who writes on Western water issues says that ignores a simple fact: Deserts are supposed to be dry. “It’s a mistake to talk about the drought as a crisis,” said Dan McCool. “We are always in a drought. That’s the definition of a desert. It’s ignoring that Utah is a desert that’s causing the problem.” <http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/06/06182002/ap_47574.asp>
BIOLOGISTS SAY FISH BIGGEST WILDLIFE CONCERN IN FIRES
Wildlife managers are concerned that soil, silt and ash washing into rivers will likely adversely affect trout populations in Colorado’s South Platte River. Denver Rocky Mountain News; 6/14 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=2858>
PATHFINDER
After developing a mission, identifying instream values to be protected and a set of tools for implementation, the Pathfinder Steering Committee decided to do a reality check by presenting our work to-date to the public. The purpose of the Pathfinder Project is to assist the Forest Service to incorporate instream flow protection into its forest management plan revision for the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, Gunnison National Forest. The public meeting summaries are now up on the Pathfinder web site. Check them out at : <http://www.GMUGpathfinder.org>
ATLAS MINE TAILINGS
The Colorado River, the water source for 25 million Americans, is almost certainly on a collision course with a massive pile of uranium slag, according to a report released by the Department of Energy’s National Research Council. The 12 million tons of tailings, located near Moab, Utah, are left over from a uranium mill that provided material for nuclear weapons prior to being shut down in 1984. The council’s report said it was a “near certainty the river’s course will run across the Moab site at some time in the future.” Less certain is when; rivers tend to migrate, and the Colorado could reach the slag heap in a matter of years or a matter of millennia. The Clinton administration unveiled a plan to move the heap further from the river at an estimated cost of from $300 million to $1 billion, but the Bush administration put the plan on hold pending further study. LA Times, 6/14 <http://www.gristmagazine.com/forward.pl?forward_id=201>
NEW ‘ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT’ FOCUSES ON GRAND CANYON FLOWS
Glen Canyon Dam profoundly changed the ecosystem of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, and the dam, the river and the effects have become the focal point for a new approach to imitating nature. NY Times; June 12 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=2847>
CALIFORNIA’S USE OF COLORADO RIVER
Bennett Raley, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, testified on June 14, before a field hearing of the House Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Water and Power on “Implementation of the California Plan for the Colorado River: Opportunities and Challenges,” in La Quinta, California. He noted the “phenomenal” progress over the last decade towards reducing California’s water use from the Colorado River to the 4.4M acre-feet allocated by compact in 1922. He described California’s 4.4 Plan as critical to southern California, but added, “…while we remain hopeful and resolute in our desire to implement the California Plan, we are increasingly concerned that California water management entities will not meet one of the critical milestones for implementation of the California 4.4 Plan…. [W]e are concerned that [they] may not execute the draft Quantification Settlement Agreement [QSA] by December 31, 2002.” That agreement would settle respective allocations of Colorado River water between entities in California. For decades, California has benefitted from the use of water from the Colorado River “surplus” to the demands of the other basin states, but as use in the other states has grown that surplus has all but disappeared.
Under existing Interim Surplus Guidelines, according to Raley, “…the Secretary of Interior must make certain determinations with respect to the availability of surplus water in the Lower Colorado River basin. These determinations are to be implemented in the context of the Annual Operating Plan…which is required, by statute, to be finalized by…January 1, 2003.” He continued, “The Department understands that complex legal, policy, and economic issues…have created an unexpected challenge for implementation of the California 4.4 Plan…. However, under the Law of the River the Secretary must also consider the rights and interests of the other States in the Colorado River Basin, and the obligation to comply with the requirements of the Mexican Treaty of 1944…. California has no legal right to the continued use of water in excess of 4.4 million acre-feet in a normal year. Nor does California’s use of additional water during times of surplus alter the immutable laws of nature. The Colorado River will have periods of surplus, periods of normal flow and periods of drought…. Perhaps the most visible, most complex, and single most important feature of the California 4.4 Plan is the voluntary transfer of large quantities of Colorado River water from irrigation to municipal and industrial uses…. Absent completion of the [QSA], the contemplated water transfers cannot proceed. Absent these water transfers, the California 4.4 Plan will fail…. In such an event, the Secretary…will enforce the Decree in Arizona v. California and California may well suffer an abrupt and major reduction in Colorado River water supplies.” See <http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/107cong/fullcomm/fc01mtg.htm#top >
MAJOR WATER BOND IS HEADED FOR CALIFORNIA’S BALLOT
With more dams and more miles of aqueduct than most of the world’s countries, California is a monument to the manipulation of waterways. Two-thirds of its 34 million people live where only one-third of its precipitation falls, and so it sends artificial rivers over mountain ranges, irrigates the desert, and transports mountain snowmelt to seaside resorts through a vast network of concrete channels and pipelines. On Nov. 5, however, the electorate will consider a water bond measure that is different from all predecessors, both in the way it was created and in its inclusion of conservation measures. Instead of being drafted by legislators and lobbyists in Capitol hallways and committee rooms the bond is the product of citizen initiative.
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RIO GRANDE DRYS UP, MINNOWS DIE
A prolonged drought, hot weather and a slow reaction by federal water managers conspired to dry out sections of the New Mexico’s middle Rio Grande, killing dozens of critically endangered silvery minnows says SF Gate, AP 6/6. As biologists mounted a desperate rescue mission to save about 100 minnows stranded in isolated pools of water along the river, the Land and Water Fund of the Rockies said “it appears the federal government violated the ESA plan that requires minimum flows in the river through June.”
CRITICAL HABITAT INADEQUATE
The USFWS has proposed that the middle section of the Rio Grande River containing what remains of the endangered silvery minnow’s wild population be protected as critical habitat says the Santa Fe New Mexican, AP 6/7. That section of the river recently dried up killing about 100 of the tiny fish and conservationists maintain that the critical habitat as proposed is inadequate to protect the species’ wild population from extinction. They contend that “more than 670 miles of the Rio Grande and Pecos River in New Mexico and Texas” are needed to ensure the minnow’s recovery.
DRAFT STUDY OF ALBUQUERQUE’S WATER PROJECT AVAILABLE
The long awaited Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the City of Albuquerque’s surface water diversion project has been issued. It may be viewed or downloaded at: <http://www.uc.usbr.gov/ea_eis/abq/abq_adwp.html>.
ALBUQUERQUE WATER DEAL LIKELY TO KEEP FARMERS IN BUSINESS
Albuquerque city officials agreed to “loan” area farmers enough water to get them through the irrigation season, and farmers agreed to drop their protest to the city’s planned drinking water project. Albuquerque Tribune; June 19 <http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/news02/061802_news_wet.shtml>
SANTA FE RESORT COMMUNITY COMPROMISES ON WATER USE
An upscale Santa Fe subdivision is using 400,000 gallons of treated wastewater a day to water its golf course, reducing its demand for city water while a court decides whether residents must abide by city water limits. Santa Fe New Mexican; June 19 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=2938>
SURVEY SAYS WATER IS N.M. RESIDENTS’ BIGGEST ISSUE
Water replaced crime as New Mexico voters’ top concern in a poll commissioned by group that backs growth management. Santa Fe New Mexican; June 19 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=2937>
CUTTHROAT TROUT LISTINGS DENIED
The USFWS has decided against listing a subspecies of cutthroat trout endemic to the Rio Grande, Pecos and possibly Canadian River basins in New Mexico and Colorado says the Federal Register 6/11. The decision culminates an almost four year effort by the Center for Biological Diversity to gain ESA protection for the fish which is threatened by hybridization and competition from non-native salmonids, habitat fragmentation, grazing, timber harvest, overfishing, disease and inadequate regulatory protection.
Also, federal fish managers decided that Columbia River cutthroat trout will do just fine without protection under the Endangered Species Act, a reversal of the government’s position three years ago. <http://www.columbian.com/06272002/clark_co/294058.html>
MOTHER NATURE HELPS MEXICO WITH LONG-OVERDUE WATER DEBT TO THE U.S.
Drought-stricken Mexico got a little help from Mother Nature in paying off a long-overdue water debt to the US. Unexpected rain showers boosted the depleted lower Rio Grande, sending a small amount of water to the United States, said Sally Spener, spokeswoman for the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC). The commission oversees all international water payments.
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TREATY NEGOTIATIONS
The Bush administration has rejected Mexico’s offer to pay back 32 billion gallons of its water debt over the next four months, presented June 9 in Washington, D.C. Mexico’s payback proposal also included a request for $100 million in loans to build a water system to aid water management in northern Mexico. The offer was a far cry from the U.S. officials’ demand for the immediate transfer of 32 billion gallons of water and an additional 82 billion gallons to be delivered before September 26, with the remaining debt to be repaid over the next five years.
WATER TRUCE WITH MEXICO
Mexico has agreed to an immediate but token payment on its vast water debt to the United States, ending for now an unusually bitter quarrel over how to manage the Rio Grande Valley’s worst drought in nearly half a century. In return for a 29-billion-gallon payment (89,000 af) to parched South Texas farms, the U.S. pledged to lend back all or part of that volume if rain fails to replenish by Oct. 26 the dwindling reserves of drinking water for Mexican border cities. The payment is 6% of the debt. (During the current drought, Mexico has fallen 480 billion gallons in arrears.) Under the accord, Mexico will transfer to the United States ownership rights to 29 billion gallons that are now part of Mexico’s share in their jointly held reservoirs–Amistad and Falcon–along the Rio Grande. The quantity is a compromise between the 32 billion gallons demanded by Texas and the 11 billion gallons first offered by Mexico. The transfer would reduce Mexico’s share of the 346 billion gallons of water in the two reservoirs to 51 billion gallons.
Mexico will get $45 million from the North American Development Bank and a U.S. promise to seek additional funding to overhaul Mexico’s leak-prone water delivery systems, according to the deal hammered out in Washington. LA Times, 6/29 <http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/07/07022002/reu_47708.asp> For a brief primer on the Texas-Mexico water dispute, visit <www.texascenter.org>
CAL-FED
The Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee has approved CALFED Bay-Delta legislation. The bill authorizes $1.6 billion to be spent over 3 years. It continues to stipulate that at least 2/3 of the funding for the overall program must come from the state of California and water users. A section was added requiring a “cross-cut budget” allowing the Administration to decide which agencies would fund which portions of the program, thus reducing the impact on the budget of the Bureau of Reclamation.
The bill includes funding levels for water storage and conveyance, improved water use efficiency, environmental enhancement, water quality improvements, levee stability, and research. It also provides $5 million for increasing the availability of existing facilities for water transfers, lowering transaction costs through permit streamlining and maintaining a water transfer information clearinghouse. The bill also provides $75 million to build local capacity to implement locally-based watershed conservation, maintenance and restoration actions and to provide technical assistance.
LOGGING WOULD HARM BULL TROUT
Conservation groups are going to court to stop old growth logging in Oregon’s Willamette N.F. that they contend will harm threatened bull trout says the Eugene Register-Guard 6/11. The Cascade Resources Advocacy Group is representing Cascadia Wildlands Project, the Oregon Natural Resources Council, the Center for Biological Diversity and Willamette Riverkeeper in the lawsuit which maintains roads and cutting of 200-year-old trees would “cause erosion that fouls streams to the detriment of bull trout.”
SPRING STORM REFILLS MONTANA RESERVOIRS
After two years of watching reservoir levels drop to unheard-of low levels, city officials and irrigators in northern Montana are stunned to see the results of a freak spring storm. Great Falls Tribune; June 20
BOR BALKS AT KLAMATH WATER PLANS
Federal biologists have gone too far in mandating water for protected fish in the Klamath Basin during the next decade, and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will not go along with the demands, the agency.
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TITLE TRANSFERS
The House Subcommittee on Water and Power heard conflicting testimony about the merits of H.R. 2202, a bill to transfer title of irrigation projects from the Bureau of Reclamation to irrigation districts. The bill includes the lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project, the Savage Unit of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, and the Intake Irrigation Project. More than 10 projects have been transferred to water districts under the existing BOR policy to encourage such transfers. However, Commissioner John Keys of the Bureau of Reclamation stated his opposition to the conveyance of title in this instance for several reasons. He said the bill as drafted would force the federal government to continue to provide the districts with power rates established under the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Project Act, even though the facilities would no longer be owned by the federal government. Commissioner Keys also expressed concern about the construction of Yellowstone fisheries protection facilities and the liability and management of the respective projects.
On the other hand, Jerry Nypen, Manager of the Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Projects, maintained that the proposed transfer is consistent with Reclamation’s mission of transferring projects that are “efficiently and effectively managed by non-federal entities.”
MONTANA DAM INITIATIVE MIGHT SPARK BATTLE WITH SPOKANE UTILITY
An initiative that could allow Montana to buy former Montana Power Co. hydroelectric dams also could take away Spokane’s main source of cheap power. Montana’s Democratic Party took no official stand on the initiative during its convention last weekend; Republicans voted to oppose the measure last week. Billings Gazette and Spokesman-Review; July 1 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=3165>
INVASIVE SPECIES HAS SILVER LINING
Lake Erie’s silver chub has “bounced back from near extinction” after “developing an appetite” for an invasive species, the zebra mussel says Earthwatch Radio 6/4. Some forty-years ago, the silver chub began to precipitously decline after pollution wiped out its primary food source, mayflies. Silver chubs are one of only two fish who have been able to integrate zebra mussels into their diets, largely because they originally evolved to eat small clams and native mussels says the Cleveland Plain Dealer 2/8.
ENDANGERED SALMON SLATED FOR DOG FOOD
The Bush administration has agreed to “allow a foreign commercial harvest of fish from the last surviving, critically endangered salmon runs in the Northeastern U.S.,” says the WWF and Atlantic Salmon Federation 6/7. Under the U.S. approved plan adopted by the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization, Greenland will be able to “harvest” salmon in “waters where endangered U.S. fish congregate.” The salmon are “not needed for subsistence, and many are expected to be used as dog food.” According to WWF-U.S., “This decision to risk extinction of the few remaining wild salmon in Maine to feed dogs in Greenland is inexplicable.”
ANNOUNCEMENT OF MISSOURI RIVER CHANGES DELAYED INDEFINITELY
The Bush administration is postponing indefinitely the long-awaited plan for altering the Missouri River’s flow. The agencies controlling the process, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Fish and Wildlife Service, have begun consultations at the service’s regional offices in Denver. Corps spokesman Paul Johnston said there is no timeline for the talks, which represent the latest delay in a dozen years of review. A USFWS biological opinion holds that restoring more natural flows is the “only way to protect two shorebirds, the piping plover and least tern, and a fish, the pallid sturgeon” and has given the Army Corps of Engineers “until the end of the year to comply.” The White House action angered Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle who said, “It is shocking that after 12 years and millions of dollars spent on countless scientific studies, the Corps continues to abdicate its responsibility.” <http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/06/06142002/ap_47557.asp>
U.S. SENATORS THREATEN ACTION OVER ARMY CORPS REFORMS
Two senators threatened to stall funding for a slew of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects unless Congress reforms the federal agency responsible for multibillion-dollar dams and public works. Republican Robert Smith of New Hampshire and Democrat Russ Feingold of Wisconsin said the Corps’ credibility must be restored after years of criticism for mismanagement and make-work projects.
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JUDGE REFUSES TO LIFT INJUNCTION AGAINST MINING PERMITS
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cannot issue permits that allow streams to be buried under excess rock and dirt from mountaintop removal coal mines, a federal judge ruled on 6/17. U.S. District Judge Charles Haden’s 51-page ruling was in response to a request from the Corps to clarify his May 8 decision ordering the agency to stop issuing the permits. The Corps also asked Haden to stay that order while they appealed. <http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/06/06182002/ap_47577.asp>
ISOLATED WETLANDS PLAY CRUCIAL ECOLOGICAL ROLE
A new report <http://wetlands.fws.gov/> by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says isolated wetlands are both exceptionally important and exceptionally vulnerable to destruction. The report lends urgency to calls for conserving isolated wetlands that lost their federal protection in a January 2001 Supreme Court decision. To learn how your state can protect isolated wetlands, go to <http://www.serconline.org/wetlands/index.htm> .
EPA SAYS 28 PERCENT OF U.S. LAKES HAVE CONTAMINATED FISH
More than one-fourth of the nation’s lakes have advisories warning consumers that fresh-caught fish may be contaminated with mercury, dioxins, or other chemicals, the Environmental Protection Agency said. The EPA said state regulators issued 2,618 fishing advisories or bans in 2001 because of contaminants. <http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/06/06262002/reu_47654.asp>
ALBERTA DROUGHT SPURS RECORD CATTLE SALES
Prolonged drought has all but eliminated summer forage for Alberta cattle, and ranchers are selling off their herds in record numbers to avoid buying expensive feed. Calgary Herald; June 25 <http://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryherald/story.asp?id={A81AA29F-655C-4149-9C02-AD696C4C0C16}>
NEW PLAN AIMS TO REVITALIZE AUSTRALIA’S LARGEST RIVER SYSTEM
The government said it will pour millions of dollars into reviving Australia’s longest river and one of its major tributaries. Less water would be diverted by farmers and other users from the Murray and its tributary, the Snowy River, under a deal struck between the federal government and state governments of Victoria and New South Wales.
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RADIOACTIVE WATER LEAKS AT SYDNEY’S NUCLEAR REACTOR
Radioactive water leaked from a cooling pond at a nuclear reactor in suburban Sydney, but no contamination of ground water in surrounding areas has been detected, Australia’s nuclear safety agency said. Though all the contaminated water is believed to have been trapped in a sump designed to contain such leakage, the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency immediately ordered tests of the nearby environment. <http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/07/07032002/ap_47729.asp> EPA DIVERTING FUNDS AWAY FROM TMDLS – The Bush administration is asking Congress for $21 million for a new “Watershed Initiative” program that has not been authorized by Congress and remains poorly defined by EPA. The stated goal of the Bush proposal is to fund local watershed cleanup programs, but it ignores the fact that the Clean Water Act already has a watershed clean up program, the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program. The Bush administration’s efforts appears to be directed at undermining the TMDL program by diverting needed attention and scarce resources away from the law’s established and enforceable, to a voluntary and unproven “Watershed Initiative” effort.
CONCERN GROWING OVER USE OF RECYCLED SLUDGE ON LAND
The dump trucks have begun rolling by Bob Grant’s western Pennsylvania farm, carrying recycled sludge by the ton for fertilizing a neighbor’s cattle-grazing land. To Grant, the trucks don’t just transport treated wastewater sludge. They carry viruses that can be spread by the wind, bacteria that can seep into the groundwater, and of course, the unbearable stench of ammonia.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s standards that govern using treated sewage sludge on soil are based on outdated science, says a new report from the National Academies’ National Research Council. The agency should update its standards using improved methods for assessing health risks, and should further study whether treated sewage sludge causes health problems for workers who apply it to land and for residents who live nearby.
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ENVIRONMENTAL ESTROGEN SHOWN TO AFFECT SPERM
Scientists have shown for the first time that small concentrations of environmental estrogens affect sperm, which may help to explain the causes of male infertility. Professor Lynn Fraser of Kings College in London told a fertility conference that a laboratory study on mice sperm showed the estrogens stimulate sperm, which has an impact on their ability to fertilize a female egg.
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CONFERENCES
The 27th Colorado Water Workshop, Gunnison, Colorado Reclamation at the Century Mark-The Legacy and the Challenge 7/31-8/2
* The Evolving Reclamation Vision
* The Black Canyon and the Gunnison Tunnel
* An Insider Historian’s Perspectives
* Reclamation of the Old West and the New West
* Delores Project
* The Boulder Canyon Project
* Environmentalism and Reclamation
* Colorado River Storage Project
* Colorado/Big Thompson
* Grand Valley Project
* Animas/La Plata
* Maintaining the Legacy
* The Challenge
* Reoperating big projects
* Is there a large-scale public reclamation project in Colorado’s future?
* Colorado Issues
* Diversion Culture and the Instream Culture
* Coal Bed Methane
* Professionals v. Democracy
* Watershed Planning, achievable or “mission impossible”?
* Draught Report
* Scarcity and the Opportunity for Community Check
<www.western.edu/water> for updates. Contact info: 970 943-2055 and <water@western.org>
NPS
On September 8-13 Colorado will be hosting a National NonPoint Source Monitoring WQ Workshop in conjunction with the 3rd annual Colorado Watershed Assembly. They will be held in Breckenridge at the Beaver Run Resort. Websites with information include <www.coloradowater.org> , <www.beaverrun.com> – to make hotel reservations and <http://www.ctic.purdue.edu/NPSWorkshop.html>
