Tag: ground water commission
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Residents in parched Colorado county fight water speculation
Tumbleweeds bounced along County Road 44, 20 miles south of the Colorado town of Walsh. Vast expanses of dry grassland spread in every direction in this southeast corner of the state, the occasional small herd of dusty cattle grazing at roadside. Farmhouses dotted the horizon. To most people, this would be the middle of nowhere,…