I'm posting some old letters to the editor. This is so I can remember what I wrote, and to keep myself honest. I'm posting them in the order I wrote them so this goes back a couple of years.
The more things change….
This was in response to the Colorado Water Conservation Board meeting on the Governor's Water Plan. Fall 2014
Additional information and links:
http://aspen.siretechnologies.com/sirepub/mobilemtgviewer.aspx?meetid=1225&doctype=AGENDA
….and this more recent evaluation from the Colorado River Research Group
http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2014/commentary/editorial-in-the-circle-fresh-focus/colorado-river-research-group-delivers-message-water-limits/
Watershed a film produced and narrated by Robert Redford
This was in response to the Colorado Water Conservation Board meeting on the Governor's Water Plan. Fall 2014
The Front Range has the legal right to divert more water from the headwaters of the Colorado River; but does it have the moral right to deprive half a Continent of another 160,000 - 600,000 cubic acre feet of water per year?
The Roaring Fork Water Shed already gives 77% of it's water to the Front Range. The Roaring Fork Water Shed is already drained to the "endangered" level.
The Colorado Water Plan proposes another 52 projects and another 8 diversions in the Colorado River Basin. The plan was approved by the Colorado Water Conservation Board and sent to the Governor's Desk on Wednesday. There is a verbal "promise" that the diversions would be "small" between 20,000- 75,000 acre feet per year per diversion.
Fish don't have legal rights in Colorado, neither do trees or birds or anything with four feet. The people of the Western Slope don't have the Senior Water Rights to stop this. The other States along the Colorado have no say in this. All any of us can do is raise our voices and cry "Shame! Shame on you for killing the West with thirst!"
Thompson Divide is nothing compared to this.
Additional information and links:
Delta Dawn a film by Peter McBride about the "pulse flow" to the Sea of Cortez
Aspen City Council presentation on the Roaring Fork Water Shed and the Colorado Water Plan-
long but worth it.
http://aspen.siretechnologies.com/sirepub/mobilemtgviewer.aspx?meetid=1225&doctype=AGENDA
….and this more recent evaluation from the Colorado River Research Group
http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2014/commentary/editorial-in-the-circle-fresh-focus/colorado-river-research-group-delivers-message-water-limits/
Watershed a film produced and narrated by Robert Redford
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