Tag: Becky Mitchell
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Colorado, Nevada water negotiators split on federal 10-year river management plan
Two of the seven Colorado River negotiators weighed in Friday on a decade-long management framework unveiled a day earlier by the federal government. With the seven states along the Colorado River failing to reach an agreement, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is planning to step in with a 10-year framework that would require negotiations every…
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Colorado River crisis deepens as 7 states miss deadline for water management plan
The seven states that share the Colorado River blew past the Nov. 11 deadline without reaching even a framework for how to manage the river after 2026. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of the Interior is prepared to act if the seven states of the Colorado River basin failed to come up with at least a…
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Snowpack lagging last year’s bounty, Colorado River negotiations intensify
After a blockbuster winter last year fended off tough decisions for the Colorado River basin, a Colorado River commissioner warned last week high snowpack levels may not bless the West again and states need to prepare. Becky Mitchell, the state of Colorado’s commissioner to the Upper Colorado River Commission, said the seven basin states of the…
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Colorado River states face new deadline on water usage reductions
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Another deadline to establish major cutbacks in water use in the seven-state Colorado River Basin is quickly approaching, as the states continue talks, as ordered by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Last summer Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton ordered the states to figure out how to…
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Lake Powell drops to its lowest level in history
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Anyone who is tied to the Colorado River — farmers, ranchers, water providers, state and federal officials and recreational users — had hoped this day would never come. Or at least not so soon. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced Lake Powell, which gets its water from…
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Has the time for a Lake Powell ‘drought pool’ already come and gone?
The 96-degree heat has barely broken early on a September evening near Fruita. As the sun prepares to set, the ailing Colorado River moves thick and quiet next to Interstate 70, crawling across the Utah state line as it prepares to deliver billions of gallons of water to Lake Powell, 320 miles south. During this…
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In pandemic squeeze, Vail exits Colorado cloud seeding program
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Vail Resorts Inc., one of the largest financial contributors to Colorado’s cloud seeding program, has dropped out this year, leaving a major hole in the program’s budget. Cloud seeding is a practice in which silver iodide pellets are sprayed into storm clouds in an effort…