Calendar of Events

Join us for “Water With Your Lunch,” a new lunch-hour webinar series brought to you by the Colorado River District.

In the first of this series, the Colorado River District’s Andy Mueller and Zane Kessler will provide an overview of key natural resource challenges facing water users in Western Colorado and throughout the Colorado River Basin, followed by an interactive discussion of future fiscal challenges that could impact the District’s efforts to protect West Slope water users.

Terry Fankhauser, Executive Vice President of the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association and Fay Hartman, Colorado River Basin Program Conservation Director for American Rivers, will present on important West Slope water issues related to agricultural, recreational, and environmental needs, and will discuss how collaboration can foster solutions for all water users on the Western Slope.

Learn about current Gunnison Basin water conditions, drought, and water planning at the virtual Gunnison State of the River meeting hosted by the Colorado River District.

Agenda
• Bob Hurford, Division 4 (Gunnison Basin) engineer with the Colorado Division of Water Resources, will talk about the weak winter snowpack, the dry spring and how these factors are affecting streamflows, reservoir storage and water rights administration.
Andy Mueller, general manager of the Colorado River District, will address the “Protection of West Slope water as we face an uncertain future.”
• Molly Mugglestone, director of communications and Colorado policy for Business for Water Stewardship, will present on a study that found Colorado’s rivers are major economic drivers producing nearly $19 billion in output annually from people recreating on or near rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs and waterways.
• Tom Alvey, head of the projects committee for the Gunnison Basin Roundtable, and Jim Pokrandt, community affairs director for the River District, will discuss hot water topics in the basin including drought, fruit freezes, an update of the roundtables water plan for the region, how the new crops of hemp and hops are working and the River District’s Lower Gunnison Project.