Tag: Colorado Water Conservation Board
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Satellites, remote sensors study water saving impact of fallow hayfields
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s high altitude hay meadows, a significant water user in the state, could be re-operated to yield more than 40 percent in water savings, according to a new report. The report is based on a major high tech research initiative to see if ranch-scale water…
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State fraud hotline generates investigations that rarely see light of day
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado auditors have been investigating for more than two years whether fraud occurred at the Colorado’s Secretary of State’s Office when Wayne Williams headed it as an elected official. Williams, a Republican who lost his re-election bid for secretary of state in 2018 and is…
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Poll: Slim majority supports spending more to protect Colorado’s water
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A majority of Colorado voters believe the state should spend more money on protecting and conserving its water resources, but they’re not willing to support new state taxes to fund the work, according to a…
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Colorado Water Plan turns 5: Is it working?
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the five years since Colorado’s Water Plan took effect, the state has awarded nearly $500 million in loans and grants for water projects, cities have enacted strict drought plans, communities have written nearly two dozen locally based stream restoration plans, and crews have been…
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Sports betting revenue opens spigot for state water plan
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Coloradans legally bet more than $1.1 billion on sports in 2020, exceeding expectations and funneling some cash to the Colorado Water Plan sooner than anticipated. Colorado collected more than $3.4 million in sports betting taxes in 2020, with operators running from May through December. Voters…
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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…
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Colorado group to battle water speculation, profiteering
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s anti-speculation water laws are considered some of the toughest in the West. Still, state lawmakers worry those laws may not go far enough to prevent water profiteering. Now, an 18-member work group charged with…
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Colorado eyes foreclosure against troubled Pueblo water company
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save An Arkansas Valley water and land company has left Colorado on the hook for nearly $1.4 million in delinquent loan payments and emergency dam repair bills, and may face a rare foreclosure proceeding by the Colorado Water Conservation Board. At issue are two state deals,…
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Sports gambling amps up, will eventually benefit state water plan
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save If you’ve watched TV in Colorado lately, chances are you’ve been bombarded with commercials for various sports betting platforms. Now, as you surf the internet, you might also see ads connecting the state’s newly legalized sports betting industry with funding for Colorado water projects. The…