COLORADO HYDROLOGY
The Colorado River mainstem, the North and South Platte, Yampa/White and Arkansas basins have near average snowpack, while the Rio Grande, Gunnison and San Juan basins are below average with 71%, 70% and 56% respectfully. Upper Colorado River Basin snowpack is currently 71 percent of average (as of May 2, 2003). The May preliminary inflow forecast issued by the National Weather Service is calling for 4.4 million acre-feet of unregulated runoff into Lake Powell during the 2003 April through July time period. This equates to 55 percent of average. The inflow forecast has been reduced from that forecasted in April. The April final forecast was calling for inflow of 66 percent of average. Periods of warm windy weather took a toll on the mountain snowpack in April. Such warm windy conditions increase sublimation losses from the snowpack, and also increase evaporation losses from the soil.
THREATENED RIVERS
The conservation organization American Rivers has released its annual ranking of the 10 most endangered rivers in the nation, and Mississippi’s Big Sunflower has the dubious distinction of topping the list. The waterways on the list are not necessarily the most polluted in the U.S; rather, they face the gravest risks of water shortages and other problems. For example, the Big Sunflower is threatened by a proposal to drain 300 square miles of wetlands to build the world’s largest hydraulic pumping plant. The Klamath River in the Pacific Northwest and the Ipswich River in Massachusetts, respectively numbers two and three on the list, face severe water shortages. “America’s seemingly insatiable demand for fresh water is nearing nature’s limits,” said American Rivers President Rebecca Wodder. <http://www.gristmagazine.com/forward.pl?forward_id=1003>
GUNNISON RIVER FOURTH ON MOST-ENDANGERED LIST
Colorado’s Gunnison River is the nation’s fourth-most-endangered, due to the Bush administration’s decision to cede water rights, according to American Rivers’ annual survey. Boulder Daily Camera; 4/10 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8059>
NON-FEDERAL WATER IN FEDERAL FACILITIES
Affirming a 20-year old policy, Sec. Norton signed a new drought-relief agreement allowing non-federal water to be moved through or stored in federal pipelines and reservoirs. This agreement will facilitate dry-year leasing between farmers and municipalities. <http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_1882947,00.html>
NEW COLORADO RESERVOIRS WOULD BE LONG, DIFFICULT PROSPECT, OBSERVERS SAY
Even if Colorado decides to build more reservoirs, all the good sites are taken and it could take 15 years for construction, according to some observers. Grand Junction Sentinel; May 1 <http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/newsfd/auto/feed/news/2003/04/30/1051708252.00303.6924.3138.html>
DENVER WON’T EASE WATER RESTRICTIONS
Denver water officials played it safe and invoked strict limits on watering lawns, although they could relax the rules if spring rains fill reservoirs to the hoped-for 87 percent of capacity. Denver Post; 4/17 <http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~23447~1330791,00.html> <http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~1361257,00.html>
COLORADO WHEAT FARMERS ENCOURAGED BY GREENER SPRING
Spring storms have allowed Colorado wheat crops to sprout and farmers’ hopes to rise, after last year’s disastrous drought. Denver Post; April 2 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=7910>
DEAL MAY RETURN WATER TO NORTHERN COLORADO’S $130 MILLION AG INDUSTRY
– Northern Colorado farmers and cities have reached a tentative deal over use of South Platte River water and its underlying aquifer that could let farmers resume pumping. Denver Rocky Mountain News; April 11 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8081> <http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~61~1333102,00.html>
WESTERN COLORADO IRRIGATORS WORRIED
Irrigators and water managers in western Colorado stretched supplies the length of the season last year, but they’re worried they may not be so lucky this year. Grand Junction Sentinel; April 2 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=7914>
COLORADO APPROVES FUNDS FOR ‘BIG STRAW’ STUDY
The Colorado Senate approved a House-amended bill to allocate $500,000 to study the feasibility of the “Big Straw” project. Denver Rocky Mountain News; April 25 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8323>
Faced with a drought that has stream flows at their lowest levels in 100 years, officials and developers in Colorado are coming up with some water-diversion schemes that would seem pretty wacky if they didn’t stand a chance of being enacted. On the top of the list is a proposed project called the Big Straw, a 200-mile-long pipeline that would pump 400,000 acre-feet of Colorado River water away from the Utah border, up 4,500 feet and over the Rocky Mountains, and down to the parched communities in the eastern half of the state, at a cost of at least $5 billion. Enviros argue that the state’s water needs can be met through smart conservation practices, without breaking the bank at a time when the state is confronting a $900 million budget deficit. “As we say, the Big Straw sucks,” says Elise Jones of the Colorado Environmental Coalition. <http://www.gristmagazine.com/maindish/zaffos042803.asp?source=daily>
COLORADO SENATE RESUSCITATES $ 2 BILLION WATER BILL
A Colorado bill that would let voters decide whether to issue $2 billion in bonds for water projects was revived in the state Senate. Denver Rocky Mountain News; April 29
DEALING WITH SHORTAGES
The U.S. Interior Department (DOI) has identified areas around the country that are likely to face conflicts over water shortages in the next 25 years. Some of the usual suspects are Los Angeles, Calif., Denver, CO, and Phoenix, AZ, as well as some new hotspots: the Gulf Coast of Texas, North Dakota’s Red River Valley, and Western cities from Bend, Ore. to Albuquerque, N.M. The federal government will unveil a plan for averting the conflicts and ensuring that agriculture, urban areas, and wildlife get enough water. The plan is expected to call for such measures as water banks, improved irrigation systems, and more emphasis on desalination. Environmentalists were relieved to see the Interior Department championing conservation and creative problem-solving rather than more dam-building, the traditional federal solution to water scarcity. However, no new funds will be made available for the plan, which will be financed out of the current Bureau of Reclamation budget. <http://www.gristmagazine.com/forward.pl?forward_id=1080>
Water 2025 is posted on the DOI Website: <http://www.doi.gov/water2025/>
NAVAJO FARMERS TO COOPERATE IN SAVING WATER
The Navajo Nation’s plan to pay farmers who don’t plant this spring, and don’t use any irrigation water, is a positive step that meshes with conservation plans in nearby communities. Farmington Daily Times; 4/4 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=7944>
POWER PLANTS PRESSURE NAVAJO FARMERS TO YIELD WATER
A Navajo Tribal Council committee endorsed giving water to two area power plants, despite criticism that Navajo farmers will suffer the consequences. Gallup Independent; 4/18 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/2003/04/20030418_2.phtml#Tribes>
NAVAJOS MOVE TO CLAIM THEIR SHARE OF COLORADO RIVER WATER
In March, the Navajo Nation sued the Department of Interior for failing to secure a firm water right for 17 million acres of Navajo Reservation. High Country News; May 1 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8440>
ALBUQUERQUE’S WATER DEMANDS ENDANGER RIO GRANDE
A conservation group has again named the Rio Grande as one of the nation’s most endangered rivers, in part due to dewatering by Albuquerque. Santa Fe New Mexican; April 10 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8045>
NEW MEXICO TO EXAMINE WATER SOURCES, USES
By the end of the year, New Mexico will draft a statewide water plan, with a survey of water sources, quality, quantity and demand, under a new law signed Thursday. Santa Fe New Mexican; 4/4 <http://www.santafenewmexican.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=20&ArticleID=25272>
NEW MEXICO WATER DEAL WOULD LET SANTA FE TAKE MORE FROM RIO GRANDE –
A New Mexico commission is proposing the state’s water compact with Texas be amended to allow Santa Fe to fill its reservoirs from the Rio Grande. New Mexican; 4/4 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=7945>
SANTA FE’S USE OF RIO GRANDE WILL START WITH LOCAL CONSENSUS
If Rio Grande water is eventually diverted to Santa Fe’s municipal system, it will be only with the help of U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici and only after local officials have developed a regional water plan. Santa Fe New Mexican; April 13 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8089>
NEW MEXICO WATER BEHOLDEN TO TEXAS’ DEMANDS
Texas has demanded delivery of its Rio Grande water, and despite New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s posturing, the only real choice is which reservoirs to drain. Santa Fe New Mexican; April 23 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8272>
NEW MEXICO WATER DEAL ALLOWS MORE STORAGE ON UPPER RIO GRANDE
An agreement with Texas will allow New Mexico to store Rio Grande water in northern reservoirs, provide water for the endangered silvery minnow and supply much of irrigators’ needs. Albuquerque Tribune; April 25 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8315>
DON’T EAT THE FISH
The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish issued a warning that trout from the Red River hatchery, located two miles from Questa, contains high levels of arsenic. Molycorp Inc., the operator of a molybdenum mine, a few miles from Questa, alerted officials of the arsenic problem. An investigation is underway to determine if pollution from the mine is poisoning the fish. 03/27/03: <http://durangoherald.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&article_path=/news/news030327_9.htm>
FRESH WATER SHORTAGE MAKES DESALINATION MORE ATTRACTIVE
California and Texas are trying it, and some day desalination plants eventually might supply a significant part of New Mexico’s drinking water. Santa Fe New Mexican; 4/6 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=7969>
NAVAJOS TO BARGAIN FOR UTAH WATER RIGHTS
Navajo officials have sanctioned negotiations with Utah over water rights on the upper Colorado Basin, although the tribe has filed no claims and has no specific position. Farmington Daily Times; April 9 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8019>
RECOVERY PROGRAM NEWS
The program director, Bob Muth, has indicated that non-native fish management will be the largest effort of the Program for this field season and “it will be done with an experimental research treatment/control approach.” Information about recovery activities in the Upper and Lower basins as well as the Grand Canyon is now being shared between staff of Regions 2 and 6 of the Fish and Wildlife Service. The regional directors and their staff have discussed the need to collaborate on recovery efforts throughout the basin. The Basin Fund is Western Area Power Administrations’ (WAPA) contribution to the Recovery Program that is funded by a percentage of the power revenues. Due to the continuing drought, WAPA has not been able to meet its contracted production obligations and has been buying power on the open market. WAPA expects the Basin Fund to be depleted by this time next year. WAPA may have to consider a power rate increase or its customers may have to ask Congress for an additional appropriation to support the Recovery Program.
UTAH OFFICIALS SAY LARGEST FRESHWATER LAKE NEEDS SAVED
Utah Lake, the state’s largest freshwater lake, is dying from salinity and phosphorous, and state officials are likely to impose limits on farm runoff and every nearby municipality’s sewage-treatment system. Idaho Falls Post Register (AP); April 16 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8147>
AS POWELL FALLS, DEBATE OVER GLEN CANYON RISES ANEW
That giant sucking sound in the West is the unprecedented emptying of Lake Powell, the critical and controversial Colorado River reservoir that is draining like a tub with the plug pulled. The massive artificial basin provides water for Nevada, Arizona and California, as well as Mexico. But four years of severe drought have brought lake levels down 95 feet — and the level is still falling. Receding waters have uncovered lost canyons, arches and beaches, and resurrected talk of removing Glen Canyon Dam. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42468-2003Apr26.html>
“ELECTRO FISHING” MAY BE HELPING
Wildlife managers are optimistic that a plan to electrocute non-native fish in the Grand Canyon B
Western Water Report: May 4, 2003
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COLORADO HYDROLOGY
The Colorado River mainstem, the North and South Platte, Yampa/White and Arkansas basins have near average snowpack, while the Rio Grande, Gunnison and San Juan basins are below average with 71%, 70% and 56% respectfully. Upper Colorado River Basin snowpack is currently 71 percent of average (as of May 2, 2003). The May preliminary inflow forecast issued by the National Weather Service is calling for 4.4 million acre-feet of unregulated runoff into Lake Powell during the 2003 April through July time period. This equates to 55 percent of average. The inflow forecast has been reduced from that forecasted in April. The April final forecast was calling for inflow of 66 percent of average. Periods of warm windy weather took a toll on the mountain snowpack in April. Such warm windy conditions increase sublimation losses from the snowpack, and also increase evaporation losses from the soil.
THREATENED RIVERS
The conservation organization American Rivers has released its annual ranking of the 10 most endangered rivers in the nation, and Mississippi’s Big Sunflower has the dubious distinction of topping the list. The waterways on the list are not necessarily the most polluted in the U.S; rather, they face the gravest risks of water shortages and other problems. For example, the Big Sunflower is threatened by a proposal to drain 300 square miles of wetlands to build the world’s largest hydraulic pumping plant. The Klamath River in the Pacific Northwest and the Ipswich River in Massachusetts, respectively numbers two and three on the list, face severe water shortages. “America’s seemingly insatiable demand for fresh water is nearing nature’s limits,” said American Rivers President Rebecca Wodder. <http://www.gristmagazine.com/forward.pl?forward_id=1003>
GUNNISON RIVER FOURTH ON MOST-ENDANGERED LIST
Colorado’s Gunnison River is the nation’s fourth-most-endangered, due to the Bush administration’s decision to cede water rights, according to American Rivers’ annual survey. Boulder Daily Camera; 4/10 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8059>
NON-FEDERAL WATER IN FEDERAL FACILITIES
Affirming a 20-year old policy, Sec. Norton signed a new drought-relief agreement allowing non-federal water to be moved through or stored in federal pipelines and reservoirs. This agreement will facilitate dry-year leasing between farmers and municipalities. <http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_1882947,00.html>
NEW COLORADO RESERVOIRS WOULD BE LONG, DIFFICULT PROSPECT, OBSERVERS SAY
Even if Colorado decides to build more reservoirs, all the good sites are taken and it could take 15 years for construction, according to some observers. Grand Junction Sentinel; May 1 <http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/newsfd/auto/feed/news/2003/04/30/1051708252.00303.6924.3138.html>
DENVER WON’T EASE WATER RESTRICTIONS
Denver water officials played it safe and invoked strict limits on watering lawns, although they could relax the rules if spring rains fill reservoirs to the hoped-for 87 percent of capacity. Denver Post; 4/17 <http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~23447~1330791,00.html> <http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~1361257,00.html>
COLORADO WHEAT FARMERS ENCOURAGED BY GREENER SPRING
Spring storms have allowed Colorado wheat crops to sprout and farmers’ hopes to rise, after last year’s disastrous drought. Denver Post; April 2 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=7910>
DEAL MAY RETURN WATER TO NORTHERN COLORADO’S $130 MILLION AG INDUSTRY
– Northern Colorado farmers and cities have reached a tentative deal over use of South Platte River water and its underlying aquifer that could let farmers resume pumping. Denver Rocky Mountain News; April 11 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8081> <http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~61~1333102,00.html>
WESTERN COLORADO IRRIGATORS WORRIED
Irrigators and water managers in western Colorado stretched supplies the length of the season last year, but they’re worried they may not be so lucky this year. Grand Junction Sentinel; April 2 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=7914>
COLORADO APPROVES FUNDS FOR ‘BIG STRAW’ STUDY
The Colorado Senate approved a House-amended bill to allocate $500,000 to study the feasibility of the “Big Straw” project. Denver Rocky Mountain News; April 25 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8323>
Faced with a drought that has stream flows at their lowest levels in 100 years, officials and developers in Colorado are coming up with some water-diversion schemes that would seem pretty wacky if they didn’t stand a chance of being enacted. On the top of the list is a proposed project called the Big Straw, a 200-mile-long pipeline that would pump 400,000 acre-feet of Colorado River water away from the Utah border, up 4,500 feet and over the Rocky Mountains, and down to the parched communities in the eastern half of the state, at a cost of at least $5 billion. Enviros argue that the state’s water needs can be met through smart conservation practices, without breaking the bank at a time when the state is confronting a $900 million budget deficit. “As we say, the Big Straw sucks,” says Elise Jones of the Colorado Environmental Coalition. <http://www.gristmagazine.com/maindish/zaffos042803.asp?source=daily>
COLORADO SENATE RESUSCITATES $ 2 BILLION WATER BILL
A Colorado bill that would let voters decide whether to issue $2 billion in bonds for water projects was revived in the state Senate. Denver Rocky Mountain News; April 29
DEALING WITH SHORTAGES
The U.S. Interior Department (DOI) has identified areas around the country that are likely to face conflicts over water shortages in the next 25 years. Some of the usual suspects are Los Angeles, Calif., Denver, CO, and Phoenix, AZ, as well as some new hotspots: the Gulf Coast of Texas, North Dakota’s Red River Valley, and Western cities from Bend, Ore. to Albuquerque, N.M. The federal government will unveil a plan for averting the conflicts and ensuring that agriculture, urban areas, and wildlife get enough water. The plan is expected to call for such measures as water banks, improved irrigation systems, and more emphasis on desalination. Environmentalists were relieved to see the Interior Department championing conservation and creative problem-solving rather than more dam-building, the traditional federal solution to water scarcity. However, no new funds will be made available for the plan, which will be financed out of the current Bureau of Reclamation budget. <http://www.gristmagazine.com/forward.pl?forward_id=1080>
Water 2025 is posted on the DOI Website: <http://www.doi.gov/water2025/>
NAVAJO FARMERS TO COOPERATE IN SAVING WATER
The Navajo Nation’s plan to pay farmers who don’t plant this spring, and don’t use any irrigation water, is a positive step that meshes with conservation plans in nearby communities. Farmington Daily Times; 4/4 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=7944>
POWER PLANTS PRESSURE NAVAJO FARMERS TO YIELD WATER
A Navajo Tribal Council committee endorsed giving water to two area power plants, despite criticism that Navajo farmers will suffer the consequences. Gallup Independent; 4/18 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/2003/04/20030418_2.phtml#Tribes>
NAVAJOS MOVE TO CLAIM THEIR SHARE OF COLORADO RIVER WATER
In March, the Navajo Nation sued the Department of Interior for failing to secure a firm water right for 17 million acres of Navajo Reservation. High Country News; May 1 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8440>
ALBUQUERQUE’S WATER DEMANDS ENDANGER RIO GRANDE
A conservation group has again named the Rio Grande as one of the nation’s most endangered rivers, in part due to dewatering by Albuquerque. Santa Fe New Mexican; April 10 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8045>
NEW MEXICO TO EXAMINE WATER SOURCES, USES
By the end of the year, New Mexico will draft a statewide water plan, with a survey of water sources, quality, quantity and demand, under a new law signed Thursday. Santa Fe New Mexican; 4/4 <http://www.santafenewmexican.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=20&ArticleID=25272>
NEW MEXICO WATER DEAL WOULD LET SANTA FE TAKE MORE FROM RIO GRANDE –
A New Mexico commission is proposing the state’s water compact with Texas be amended to allow Santa Fe to fill its reservoirs from the Rio Grande. New Mexican; 4/4 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=7945>
SANTA FE’S USE OF RIO GRANDE WILL START WITH LOCAL CONSENSUS
If Rio Grande water is eventually diverted to Santa Fe’s municipal system, it will be only with the help of U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici and only after local officials have developed a regional water plan. Santa Fe New Mexican; April 13 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8089>
NEW MEXICO WATER BEHOLDEN TO TEXAS’ DEMANDS
Texas has demanded delivery of its Rio Grande water, and despite New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s posturing, the only real choice is which reservoirs to drain. Santa Fe New Mexican; April 23 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8272>
NEW MEXICO WATER DEAL ALLOWS MORE STORAGE ON UPPER RIO GRANDE
An agreement with Texas will allow New Mexico to store Rio Grande water in northern reservoirs, provide water for the endangered silvery minnow and supply much of irrigators’ needs. Albuquerque Tribune; April 25 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8315>
DON’T EAT THE FISH
The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish issued a warning that trout from the Red River hatchery, located two miles from Questa, contains high levels of arsenic. Molycorp Inc., the operator of a molybdenum mine, a few miles from Questa, alerted officials of the arsenic problem. An investigation is underway to determine if pollution from the mine is poisoning the fish. 03/27/03: <http://durangoherald.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&article_path=/news/news030327_9.htm>
FRESH WATER SHORTAGE MAKES DESALINATION MORE ATTRACTIVE
California and Texas are trying it, and some day desalination plants eventually might supply a significant part of New Mexico’s drinking water. Santa Fe New Mexican; 4/6 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=7969>
NAVAJOS TO BARGAIN FOR UTAH WATER RIGHTS
Navajo officials have sanctioned negotiations with Utah over water rights on the upper Colorado Basin, although the tribe has filed no claims and has no specific position. Farmington Daily Times; April 9 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8019>
RECOVERY PROGRAM NEWS
The program director, Bob Muth, has indicated that non-native fish management will be the largest effort of the Program for this field season and “it will be done with an experimental research treatment/control approach.” Information about recovery activities in the Upper and Lower basins as well as the Grand Canyon is now being shared between staff of Regions 2 and 6 of the Fish and Wildlife Service. The regional directors and their staff have discussed the need to collaborate on recovery efforts throughout the basin. The Basin Fund is Western Area Power Administrations’ (WAPA) contribution to the Recovery Program that is funded by a percentage of the power revenues. Due to the continuing drought, WAPA has not been able to meet its contracted production obligations and has been buying power on the open market. WAPA expects the Basin Fund to be depleted by this time next year. WAPA may have to consider a power rate increase or its customers may have to ask Congress for an additional appropriation to support the Recovery Program.
UTAH OFFICIALS SAY LARGEST FRESHWATER LAKE NEEDS SAVED
Utah Lake, the state’s largest freshwater lake, is dying from salinity and phosphorous, and state officials are likely to impose limits on farm runoff and every nearby municipality’s sewage-treatment system. Idaho Falls Post Register (AP); April 16 <http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=8147>
AS POWELL FALLS, DEBATE OVER GLEN CANYON RISES ANEW
That giant sucking sound in the West is the unprecedented emptying of Lake Powell, the critical and controversial Colorado River reservoir that is draining like a tub with the plug pulled. The massive artificial basin provides water for Nevada, Arizona and California, as well as Mexico. But four years of severe drought have brought lake levels down 95 feet — and the level is still falling. Receding waters have uncovered lost canyons, arches and beaches, and resurrected talk of removing Glen Canyon Dam. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42468-2003Apr26.html>
“ELECTRO FISHING” MAY BE HELPING
Wildlife managers are optimistic that a plan to electrocute non-native fish in the Grand Canyon B
