Instream Flow

Oct 17, 2024 | watereducationcolorado.org | Shannon Mullane |Instream Flow

With the snip of a ribbon Tuesday, Colorado water managers officially opened a new waterway in Grand County that reconnects a stretch of the Colorado River for the first time in four decades to help fish and aquatic life. The milelong waterway, called the Colorado River Connectivity Channel, skirts around Windy Gap Reservoir, where a dam has broken the natural flow of the river since 1985.

Sep 17, 2024 | watereducationcolorado.org | Jim O'Donnell |Arkansas River |Instream Flow

The first comprehensive book ever written about Colorado’s beleaguered Fountain Creek, what we can learn and where we go from here. For Water Education Colorado readers Torrey House Press is offering a discount for preorders made prior to October 20, 224. Use discount code PUBLICLANDS at checkout.Preorder Fountain Creek here: https://www.torreyhouse.org/fountain-creek Three geese scooted the creek then veered towards a mass of cattails.

Sep 12, 2024 | watereducationcolorado.org | Jerd Smith |Instream Flow |Rio Grande

Four years after a high-profile dam restoration project was completed in the scenic headwaters of the Rio Grande, promises to deliver water for fish during the winter and other recreational benefits have not been met, environmental groups charge.

Jul 3, 2024 | watereducationcolorado.org | Tracy Ross |Instream Flow |South Platte

SOUTH ST. VRAIN CREEK — Sometime this summer, certain parts of South St. Vrain Creek may, for the first time in over a century, have water flowing through them intermittently, thanks to technology most Coloradans take for granted but until recently has been out of reach for area water managers.