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• Five Mile Dam Park starts new improvement phase

  
  Newstreamz San Marcos — Authority: 518
  With the summer season gone, Hays County has begun Phase II of improvements to Five Mile Dam Park to have them ready for next summer.
  18 hours ago

• A Clarification on the Mead-Powell Data

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 470
  A lack of precision in the way I worded a post last week on reservoir levels in Lake Powell and Lake Mead seems to have led to some confusion. I was writing about the rising levels in Lake Powell as Lake Mead was dropping, and suggested this was the result of a management decision rather than natural forces. But I ...
  1 day ago

• If you’re into hotspotting, best drag your feet

  
  Michael Gracie — Authority: 113
  I’ve moved from fly fishing purgatory straight to heaven over the last few weeks. Reports have been posted, and it’s time for the roundup. Why now you ask? Colorado River tributaries have been smoking, and most of my regular cohorts have now had a shot at them. The spawn is over, hence it’s too late for ...
  2 days ago

• On the Colorado, Are We Doing Better Than I Thought?

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 470
  Here’s a question for the western water wonks in the audience. During a time of unprecedented population growth in the west, we just went through the driest 10-year stretch on the Colorado since record-keeping began . And no one had their water turned off. What does this say about the systems we have in place to ...
  2 days ago

• A Very Dry Decade on the Colorado

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 470
  With the 2009 “water year” just completed, it’s time to take stock. The decade just completed, 2000-2009, is the driest 10-year period in the Colorado River Basin in the record, according to preliminary data in the latest draft of the Bureau of Reclamation’s Colorado River Annual Operating Plan , a compendium ...
  3 days ago

• Salazar flooded with support for ban on Grand Canyon uranium mining

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 671
  In 2003, there were a mere 100 mining claims in the million or so acres of public land surrounding Grand Canyon National Park. Now there are more than 8,500 – mostly for uranium – with more than 1,100 claims less than five miles from arguably America’s most iconic national park . Late last week, Interior ...
  5 days ago

• Colorado River Northwest Fishing Report

  
  Arizona Fishing — Authority: 132
  LAKE POWELL — Report courtesy Wayne Gustaveson, Utah Division of Wildlife. October 28, 2009 Lake Elevation: 3633. Water Temp: 62-64 F A fantastic fishing season is drawing to a close. It has been a banner year for all species. Habitat, food/forage and fish numbers have peaked at near optimum conditions. Great ...
  5 days ago

• It’s Grand!

  
  Catherine Sherman — Authority: 112
  This rock squirrel hangs out at a scenic outlook at the Grand Canyon. Hes got his eye on another vista -- your backback full of snacks. We made a detour to the Grand Canyon on our drive home in September from California (Yes, I’ll be wringing posts out of that trip for some time to come!)  It was well worth the ...
  6 days ago

• Upper Colorado River, Front Range water resources threatened

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 671
  Some water experts warn the upper Colorado River is an endangered species if current residential growth patterns and water consumption patterns continue along the state’s Front Range, and they’re increasingly concerned proposed energy production on the Western Slope will accelerate its demise. Poudre Canyon ...
  6 days ago

• Water rights make El Centro an oasis

  
  Environment — Authority: 526
  If you head east to El Centro from San Diego, Interstate 8 takes you through arid scenery, climbing to 4,000 feet through barren mountains so fast that your ears pop. Then comes the oasis. As you head down rapidly out of the mountains once more toward El Centro you hit a sign that tells you that you have reached sea ...
  1 week ago

• Water rights make El Centro an oasis

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  If you head east to El Centro from San Diego, Interstate 8 takes you through arid scenery, climbing to 4,000 feet through barren mountains so fast that your ears pop. Then comes the oasis.
  1 week ago

• Storage In Mead and Powell

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 470
  Total storage in Lake Mead at the end of September (the end of the western “water year”) was lower than it’s been since they first filled it in the 1940s. But this is a bit more complicated than that stark statement might appear. Storage in Lakes Mead and Powell If you click through to look at a larger ...
  1 week ago

• The Grand Canyon: Rim to Rim

  
  The Smoky Mountain Hiking Blog — Authority: 432
  Bonus guest blog written by my wife, Kathy: For many hikers, a “bucket list” or “life list” just wouldn’t be complete unless it included a rim to rim hike across the Grand Canyon. I was fortunate enough to do just that over the Memorial Day weekend in 1996 with three fellow hikers. While the hike itself ...
  1 week ago

• Surf Fail - Colorado River edition

  
  Surfing Commentary and Surf News | Surf Contest News, Surf Movies and Book Reviews, Surfboard and Surfer Information - DailyStoke.com — Authority: 433
  Next time you’re out on a chest to head high day and the wind switches a little bit sideshore, “ruining” the perfect oil glass that you were already surfing for several hours, consider just how lucky you really are.  There are people in this world who take great pleasure in surfing absolute garbage.  In the ...
  1 week ago

• On Saving the Salton Sea

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 470
  The Salton Sea is a fascinating case study in the cultural ambiguity of “nature”. Created in 1905 when the Colorado River found a hole in a poorly constructed irrigation intake and flooded low-lying California desert, the Sea has been sustained – sort of – by agricultural runoff. So it’s not at all ...
  1 week ago

• Colorado Main Stem Storage

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 470
  
  1 week ago

• Grand Canyon honeymoon mystery featured in Ken Burns documentary

  
  The Monkey Wrench Dad — Authority: 120
  I recently picked up a book for the the winter reading queue that Ive been eyeing for a while, Brad Dimocks Sunk Without a Sound. Dimock is a fine historian and writer of very readable books on the Colorado River and the many characters who have plied its waters. (My personal favorite is his fascinating and fun ...
  1 week ago

• Colorado River Northwest Fishing Report

  
  Arizona Fishing — Authority: 132
  LAKE POWELL — Report courtesy Wayne Gustaveson, Utah Division of Wildlife. October 28, 2009 Lake Elevation: 3633. Water Temp: 62-64 F A fantastic fishing season is drawing to a close. It has been a banner year for all species. Habitat, food/forage and fish numbers have peaked at near optimum conditions. Great ...
  1 week ago

• Ag Water in the West

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 470
  Shaun McKinnon has a must-read story for those interested in western water in today’s Arizona Republic about the discussion in his state about the future of agricultural and municipal water use: As Phoenix grew, the land available for farms shrank and water use shifted. As recently as 1965, 80 percent of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• $1,000 an acre foot

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 470
  I’m always intrigued at the chance to see the price of a water transaction in the West. Usually it’s hidden, but a transaction being discussed among some Colorado River Communities offers this glimpse. From Jim Seckler’s story in the Mohave Daily News : George said the plan would be for the MCWA to keep ...
  2 weeks ago

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