Archive for August, 2013
Wapiti Wizardry
Posted in Uncategorized on August 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Weekly Climate, Water and Drought Assessment of the Upper Colorado River Basin #COdrought #ColoradoRiver
Posted in Uncategorized on August 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Click on the thumbnail graphic to see the August month to date precipitation map for the Upper Colorado River Basin from the Colorado Climate Center. Click here to read the current assessment. Click here to go to the webpage.
More Colorado River Basin coverage here.
Colorado lawmakers aim to create a good samaritan program under the Clean Water Act for abandoned mine cleanups
Posted in Uncategorized on August 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Bipartisan push could speed remediation projects
By Summit Voice
FRISCO — A few months after the EPA unveiled new regulatory guidance for abandoned mine remediation, a bipartisan pair of Colorado lawmakers launched a new push to speed cleanups.
The new law proposed by Senator Mark Udall and Congressman Scott Tipton would give Good Samaritan groups additional binding legal safeguards they need to remediate the sites and clean up tainted streams. There are more than 7,000 abandoned hard rock mine sites located in Colorado and thousands more throughout the West.
“Runoff from abandoned mines throughout Colorado and the West threaten our water quality, wildlife and local economies. This common-sense, bipartisan legislation will further unleash so-called Good Samaritan groups and allow them to help address this problem,” Udall said.
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The Fish and Wildlife Report 