Tag: Lake Powell
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Tax, climate package includes $4 billion to combat drought in Arizona, Colorado, other basin states
Tucked in the U.S. Senate’s tax and climate package is $4 billion for drought resiliency – money that comes at a critical time as the West grapples with dwindling supply from the Colorado River, depleting reservoirs and a drier climate that’s causing the worst wildfires the region has seen this century. The funding would benefit Colorado…
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States mull unpleasant options as feds demand huge cuts on Colorado River
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Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming may face requests for voluntary cutbacks in their use of Colorado River water next year, as the federal government eyes releasing more water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir and as Arizona, California and Nevada scramble to find ways to slash water use quickly. Experts say these actions are among dozens…
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Hickenlooper-Barrasso bill aims to reauthorize Colorado River water conservation plan
U.S. Sens. John Hickenlooper and John Barrasso are teaming up on legislation to help the upper basin states of the Colorado River in their quest to meet the demands by the Bureau of Reclamation to conserve water. The legislation from the Denver Democrat and Wyoming Republican would reauthorize the System Conservation Pilot Program through 2026, 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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A visit to ‘Colorado’s answer to Lake Powell’: Ode to Navajo
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Scenes from Navajo Reservoir, ‘Colorado’s answer to Lake Powell’. (Video by Seth Boster) { “@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “VideoObject”, “name”: “SCENES FROM | Navajo Reservoir”, “description”: “Scenes from Navajo Reservoir, ‘Colorado’s answer to Lake Powell’. (Video…
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Several boat ramps at Blue Mesa Reservoir to close due to falling water levels
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Due to deceasing water levels in the Blue Mesa Reservoir, officials announced Friday that several boat ramps will be unusable at the reservoir within the coming weeks. Water levels in the reservoir near Gunnison will…
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Federal government plans to take more water from already stressed Colorado River Basin reservoirs
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The federal Bureau of Reclamation took the unprecedented step Thursday of starting to release more water from already stressed reservoirs in the Colorado River Basin to support power production at Lake Powell. The agency started releasing more water from Flaming Gorge Dam on the Utah-Wyoming…
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Southern, western Colorado still dry; Denver, northern Colorado get drought relief
For the first time in a year, the Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins areas are no longer experiencing drought or abnormal dryness. The return to normal for some of the state’s most populous areas comes after several waves of spring rain and snowstorms. But the improved conditions come with a big caveat: Much of western…