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LOWER GUNNISON PROJECT (LGP): AN RCPP PROGRESS REPORT (NO. 2)

This progress report serves as a summary of activities implemented under the 2015 RCPP project entitled Modernizing Agricultural Water Management in the Lower Gunnison River Basin: A Cooperative Approach to Increased Water Use Efficiency and Water-Quality Improvement (hereinafter referred to as the Lower Gunnison Project or LGP). The purpose of this project is to protect and enhance targeted natural resources through the development and implementation of a coordinated off- and on-farm irrigation efficiency improvement program [Read More...]

Lower Gunnison Project

Gunnison River Basin: Lower Gunnison Project (LGP) The Lower Gunnison Project is a cooperative-funded series of projects designed to boost agricultural water use efficiency. It involves two types of improvement activities on-farm  water application, and off-farm conveyance projects, in four distinct focus areas: Bostwick Park Water Conservancy District, Crawford Water Conservancy District, North Fork Water Conservancy District and the Uncompahgre Valley Water Users Association project area (more background info and LGP FAQ below)   North Fork Valley [Read More...]

Selenium Management

Multiple efforts to address elevated selenium concentrations in the Lower Gunnison and Colorado Rivers within Colorado are on-going The most active effort is related to the Selenium Management Program (SMP) facilitated by the US Bureau of Reclamation. Details and archives can be found here Additionally – there is a voluntary group of landowners, water users and agency folks working in a cooperative and proactive fashion to “protect the agricultural heritage” of the basin. In 2018, [Read More...]

Colorado River District Spotlights Projects Protecting West Slope Water

Colorado River District Spotlights Projects Protecting West Slope Water As part of its Annual Water Seminar, the District highlighted key water projects benefiting all West Slope water users The Colorado River District works across the West Slope to improve infrastructure and restore rivers as part of its work to protect water supplies for all stakeholders. At the District’s virtual Annual Water Seminar: Zooming in on West Slope Water on Tuesday, speakers highlighted three projects that [Read More...]

Summer 2020 Newsletter

Monthly Newsletter  summer 2020 For best viewing Click here water News & basin Developments  Summer of 2020: UN-like Any Other; Business as (UN)-Usual Kathleen’s Korner – Musings from the Chair of the Gunnison Basin Roundtable  Now that it is time to put up hay in Gunnison country, the rains have come.  For folks not in the hay business – rain and baling hay are not a good combination.  But as my husband says, if you are [Read More...]

January 2020 Newsletter

  A Monthly Newsletter for Information on Water Resources  january 2020 News, Events, and Funding Opportunities Gunnison River Basin Roundtable  Join us!  Monday, January 20, 4:00-7:00 pm Agenda & supporting documents  Holiday Inn, Montrose, CO     News From Around the Basin 2020 Funding Assistance Program – funding available for enhancing water supply or improving stream conditions Lower Gunnison Project RCPP On-Farm Update – funding awarded to help improve water efficiency in the Lower Gunnison Basin New Monitoring Program [Read More...]

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Recent Updates
  • Aspinall Unit and Gunnison Tunnel Operations

    November, 17th, 2020

    January 8, 2021 Update from Erik Knight – USBR   Upper Gunnison Basin Snowpack Current = 73% of average / 78% of median April – July [Read More...]

  • Taylor Park Reservoir Operations

    September, 17th, 2020

    September 17, 2020 update from Erik Knight,  Hydrologist, Western Colorado Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation: Mid-September update to the Taylor Park Reservoir operations [Read More...]

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