River District Awards First Accelerator Grant The Big Blue Ditch Company received $45,000 to support their federal grant application feasibility study. Glenwood Springs, Colorado — On June 28, 2022, the Colorado River District’s Community Funding Partnership awarded its first Accelerator Grant to the Big Blue Ditch Diversion Rehabilitation and Piping Project Feasibility Study. Located in
Community Funding Partnership – New Funding Opportunity! Accelerator Grants for Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Investments CFP Accelerator Grants are designed to help West Slope water users build a competitive application for federal funding opportunities. The Colorado River District Community Funding Partnership is opening a special funding round to support grant-writing, feasibility, design, preliminary environmental review,
Thank you for participating in this Water With Your Lunch. A recording of the webinar is available here. Please see below for resource links and PowerPoint slides. During this installment of the Colorado River District’s popular Water With Your Lunch series, West Slope water users will learn about ways to successfully navigate the federal funding opportunities
Community Funding Partnership Moves Forward Funding Two New Water Projects $100,000 in additional funding awarded for infrastructure, conservation, and efficiency projects on the West Slope. Nearly halfway through its second year, the Community Funding Partnership continues to support multi-benefit water projects that offer durable solutions to ourlocal and regional water challenges. The Colorado River
River District To Host Webinar Workshop About Infrastructure Funding Opportunities “How to Make it Rain When it’s not Raining – Funding Your West Slope Water Project,” is the next installment of the District’s popular Water With Your Lunch series. Glenwood Springs, CO — On June 29, at 12:00 p.m., the Colorado River District will host
Colorado River District Gives Voice To West Slope Water In Congress General Manager’s testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Conservation, Climate, Forestry and Natural Resources put the western water crisis on federal center stage. Washington, D.C. — On Tuesday, June 7, General Manager Andy Mueller of the Colorado River District provided expert testimony to
State Affairs Briefing: Legislation Session Roundup In his State Affairs briefing to the Board of Directors, Government Relations Director, Zane Kessler, provided an overview of River District activities at the State Capitol as the end of the 2022 legislative session draws close. April 21, marked the 100th calendar day of the 120-day legislative session, meaning
Federal Affairs Briefing: SCOTUS Takes Up WOTUS In late January, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) announced the cases it will consider in its upcoming term. One of these cases is Sackett v. US EPA, in which the Supreme Court will consider if the lower court (Ninth Circuit) used the proper test
CWCB Puts A “Hard Pause” On Demand Management In late March, the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) decided to take a ‘hard pause’ on further study of Demand Management. ‘Demand Management’ is the concept of temporary, voluntary, and compensated reductions in the consumptive use of water in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Included as one
Colorado River Basin Water Supply Conditions – Below Normal…Again The hydrology report presented at the Second Quarterly Board Meeting of 2022 was much the same as the last. Dave Kanzer, Director of Science and Interstate Matters, and Don Meyer, Senior Water Resources Engineer, once again shared data telling a story of below-average snowpack, above-average
