Eagle River
August 5, 2009--Puzzling trout decline on Eagle River (Denver Post)
Heavy runoff. Overharvest. Urbanization. Pollution. All or none of the above.
July 18, 2009--Do you know where your water comes from? (Grand Junction Sentinel)
When you turn on your faucet, do you ever wonder where your water came from? Depending on where that faucet is located in the Grand Valley, the source could be a few different places.
- Aquifer
- Blue River
- Cabin Reservoir
- Clifton Water District
- Colorado
- Colorado River
- Coon Creek
- Cottonwood Creek
- Domestic Water
- Domestic Well
- Eagle River
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Groundwater
- Juniata Reservoir
- Kannah Creek Basin
- Kruzen Springs
- Mesa Creek
- Plateau Creek
- Press Clippings
- Purdy Mesa Reservoir
- Rapid Creek
- Rapid Creek Jerry Creek Reservoir
- Roaring Fork River
- Ute Water Conservancy District
- Water Filtration
- Water Storage
- Water Supply
- Water Treatment Plant
- Watershed
June 11, 2009--Front Range eyes mountain water (Durango Telegraph)
Mountain towns in the Rockies have a symbiotic relationship with Denver and other cities along Colorado’s urbanized, Front Range corridor. It is typically also one of ambivalence.
March 27, 2009--Vail Valley trout decline stumps experts (Vail Daily)
The brown trout population in the Avon section of the Vail Valley's Eagle River has decreased between 20 percent and 30 percent the last four years and nobody is sure why.
March 20, 2009--Health of Eagle River in question in Vail Valley (Vail Daily)
The number of brown trout in the Eagle River in Avon has dropped since 2005 and the health of a once badly polluted stretch near Minturn in Colorado's Vail Valley is again in question.
February 11, 2009--Minturn developer makes run at Pueblo water rights (Vail Daily)
The Ginn Company has made a bid for water rights owned by the town of Pueblo, and the Minturn, Colorado developer know next week whether it can expect to assume the rights.
February 4, 2009--Aurora wants more water (Pueblo Chieftain)
Aurora wants to buy a mountain ditch from the Pueblo Board of Water Works as well as enter a new long-term water lease with the board.
November 19, 2008--Water board seeks more rights (Pueblo Chieftain)
The Pueblo Board of Water Works wants to sell the Columbine Ditch, beef up its lease program and issue bonds to pay for $72.8 million in new Arkansas Valley Water rights next year.
October 26, 2008--Reports of toxic spills spiking (Denver Post)
Hazardous-waste spills and discoveries reported to Colorado authorities nearly doubled over the past decade, from an average of 561 a year from 1998 to 2000 to an average of 1,035 from 2005 to 2007. Population growth, carelessness, and the boom in oil and gas drilling are largely to blame.
September 27, 2008--River gets repairs in Minturn, Edwards (Vail Daily)
Restoration work will begin Tuesday on a warm, wide and shallow stretch of the Eagle River in Edwards, an area notoriously unwelcoming to fish. Restoration has already started on a stretch of the Eagle River running through Minturn that was badly damaged by early development in town.
