Heather Sackett

Water managers from the seven states that share the Colorado River have blown a deadline given to them by the federal government to come up with a rough plan on how the drought-stricken river will be shared in the future.

The Great Basin Water Network and partners released a report this week with what they say are nine common-sense recommendations to avoid conflict and prepare for a drier future.

Over two days of hearings, Colorado water managers laid out their arguments related to the Shoshone water rights on the Colorado River and who should have the authority to control it.

The CWCB will decide next week whether to approve a proposal from the Western Slope that would allow one of the oldest and most powerful water rights on the Colorado River to be used to benefit the environment.

Streamflows on the Western Slope have plummeted over the last month, sending water managers scrambling to boost flows for endangered fish and ranking it among the driest years in recent history.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff told members of the Colorado Basin Roundtable they believe this private lake is an upstream source of the mussels that have contaminated the Colorado River.

To avoid a contested hearing, River District proposes CWCB neutrality in Shoshone water rights deal

A judge has sided with the Colorado River District in a dispute with Denver Water over Ritschard Dam in Grand County.

Officials from Colorado laid out the proposal, which they are calling a supply-driven approach, that sets the amount of water released from Lake Powell.

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