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Weekly water roundup: EPA funnels $25 million to Colorado water projects, Flaming Gorge pipeline
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Short takes on the week in Colorado Water:
Stimulus dough from the EPA
The EPA is handing out an additional $25 million for Colorado water projects. From their release:
The Recovery Act funds will go to the state's Clean Water State Revolving Fund program. The Clean Water State Revolving Fund program provides low interest loans for water quality protection projects for wastewater treatment, non-point source pollution control, and watershed and estuary management.
Wet
After starting out 2009 worried about drought northeastern Colorado has climbed out of dry conditions in a big way. Most storage is full on nearly full. Denver Water for example hasn't started moving water through the Roberts tunnel from Dillon yet. The South Platte is a free river.
I hope you've been able to hold on to your hat and keep the floods to a minimum.
H.B. 09-1303: Coalbed methane well regulation
Governor Ritter signed H.B. 09-1303 this week. The bill allows the state engineer some leeway in the timing and regulation of produced water depletions from coalbed methane wells primarily allowing a well to operated after the substitute supply plan has been filed but before it's been decreed.
No ditch curtailments in the San Luis Valley
The runoff came down hard and fast so no one has to cut back on allocated water from the ditches down in the San Luis Valley right now.
Flaming Gorge pipeline (Regional Watershed Supply Project)
Another week -- another U.S. Army Corps of Engineers scoping session in Wyoming for Aaron Million's pipeline from Flaming Gorge Reservoir (and the Green River) to Colorado's Front Range (and points south) -- and another hostile crowd overwhelmingly opposed. People up there are starting to focus on the total water left to develop by the upper basin states and they're wondering if they'll be any left for Wyoming after million and oil shale. It's the old argument between "wet water" and "paper water".
DeGette introduces FRAC Act
U.S. Representative Diana DeGette was part of a group of sponsors that introduced S. 1215: Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals act this week. They're hoping to force oil and gas operations to disclose the chemicals used in the fracturing process that boosts production.
What every westerner should know about oil shale
Here's the link to the new publication out of the University of Colorado's Center of the American West What Every Westerner Should Know About Oil Shale. They're making sure that there is no excuse for not being up to date on the issue.
Parker looking to seal the deal on Rueter-Hess
With the development well nearly dry the folks at Parker Water and Sanitation are scrambling to find the dough to complete the project. They're hoping to store effluent and other water that can be reused to extinction. Parker's Frank Jaeger is a major proponent of the Colorado-Wyoming Coalition that is hoping to build a project similar to Aaron Million's -- only as public/private rather than private owners -- that will no doubt be a source for the reservoir.
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