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Tracking the Curve
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Sources we are using to track the spread, and the fallout …
Virus Beta
Tracking the Curve
Sources we are using to track the spread, and the fallout …
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Water Desk
Boating survey aims for better river management for recreation
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“It allows us to actually quantify river recreation opportunities so it can be used to inform water management decisions and understand future impacts,” said Kestrel Kunz, Southern Rockies stewardship assistant for American Whitewater.
Environment Desk
Increased use, violations on Pitkin County open space kept rangers busy this spring
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The number of enforcement contacts — in which rangers had to remind people of the rules through a simple conversation, a warning or a ticket — exploded in the spring, especially in May.
Water Desk
Colorado’s oldest water rights get extra protection from state engineer
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Some water experts say preserving these pre-compact water rights, even though they aren’t being used, could give Colorado stronger footing in potential negotiations with lower basin states by propping up Colorado’s consumptive-use tally on paper.
Environment Desk
CORE funding at risk; ‘transition year’ ahead
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Fees from Pitkin County’s Renewable Energy Mitigation Program are likely to continue to decline because of recent changes to the building and energy codes.
Water Desk
Roaring Fork River expected to peak early
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But despite the lower-than-average flows, this weekend is probably one of the best of the year to go boating on local waterways.
Water Desk
Western Colorado water purchases stir up worries about the future of farming
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Since 2017, Water Asset Management has spent $16.6 million buying up 2,222 acres of irrigated agricultural land in the communities of Fruita, Loma and Mack, west of Grand Junction.
Water Desk
City of Aspen banks on creative thinking for ATM water project
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But water managers will have to think outside the box since the usual process of an ATM is transferring water from agricultural to municipal use, and there isn’t much irrigated agriculture in the upper Roaring Fork River basin.
Environment Desk
Pitkin County targets building codes in effort to reduce emissions
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Recent changes to Pitkin County’s land-use and energy codes hold new and renovated residential buildings to strict efficiency standards that officials say will significantly reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
Big bore in hard times
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Aspen locals in 1930 welcomed the work on a big dam-and-tunnel project on Independence Pass, but the community grew to miss the water in the river.