The Los Angeles Times By Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer April 1, 2008
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-poudre1apr01,1,2773535.story?track=rss
Pipeline meetings will begin this week
Meetings explain Southern Delivery System, give public the chance to comment on plans.
By CHRIS WOODKA THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
A series of meetings over the next two weeks will give the public the opportunity to learn more about the draft environmental impact statement issued by the Bureau of Reclamation for the Southern Delivery System and to comment on those plans....
Beyond drought: Denver Water prepares for long-term climate change
Modest temp increases lead to significant streamflow changes By BOB BERWYN summit daily news Summit County, CO Colorado March 29, 2008
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20080329/NEWS/230664127
Pipeline’s ‘Top 10’ list missing floods
Fifth in a series - By CHRIS WOODKA - THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN http://www.chieftain.com/metro/1206597600/5
Chevron agrees to allow water and fish studies
by on March 28, 2008 http://blogs.denverpost.com/eletters/2008/03/28/chevron-agrees-to-allow-water-and-fish-studies/
Overflow from drilling near Parachute has left behind a "waterfall" of frozen gunk and a huge erosion deposit.
Get a load of this dam project!
Lodge owner [and TU Staffer] Brian Kraft leads the charge against a mine that threatens the Bristol Bay fishery. ".... According to documents submitted by the mining company.... the pit would be roughly two miles by three miles in size. In the course of mineral extraction, the operation would generate an estimated 2.6 billion tons of waste rock. In order to hold back this waste, the company would have to construct of series of five dams and embankments. Eventually, one of the embankments would be 4.3 miles long and 740 feet high, and another earthen dam would stretch for 2.9 miles and rise to 700 feet high. These structures would be bigger than the Hoover or Grand Coulee dams, and would, in fact, dwarf the Three Gorges Dam in China—presently the world’s largest. All this digging and construction would occur in one of Alaska’s most seismically active areas and at the headwaters of its finest, wildest salmon and trout fishery....:
Read Tim Bristol's full article from American Angler magazine: http://americanangler.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=521&Itemid=81
A South Platte revival
Runoff gives hope of flushing ash residue from '02 Hayman fire
Pipeline project stirs attention in Ark Valley
Public has until April 29 to comment on Southern Delivery System evaluation.
"One problem with the EIS, noted by Drew Peternell, director of Trout Unlimited’s Colorado Water Project, is that it measures all of the alternatives against a no-action alternative, which Colorado Springs revised in 2007."
http://www.chieftain.com/metro/1206252000/3
First in a series
By CHRIS WOODKA THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
Roan fight seeks more muscle
"The sportsmen's group, a consortium spearheaded by Trout Unlimited and the National Wildlife Federation, are campaigning for an additional 7,000 acres to protect threatened Colorado River cutthroat trout habitat in two watersheds excluded from the Ritter recommendation."
by Charlie Meyers - The Denver Post
