Tag: u.s. bureau of reclamation
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Coors Seltzer and Coca-Cola among businesses aiding key segment of drought-stressed Colorado River
A coalition of high-profile businesses, including Coors Seltzer and Coca-Cola as well as the nonprofit Colorado Water Trust have signed up to add additional water for fish, farmers and hydropower generation to a key segment of the drought-stressed Colorado River known as the 15-Mile Reach. This stream segment begins just east of Grand Junction and…
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Auditors: State’s park preservation program operates ‘effectively,’ ‘efficiently’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s 27-year-old grant program for parks and open space was performing well, the state’s Legislative Audit Committee was told Monday. “They operate — this is my opinion — very effectively and efficiently on a small staff,” Kimberley Higgins said of Great Outdoors Colorado. Higgins’s firm, Eide…
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Auditors: State’s park preservation program operates ‘effectively,’ ‘efficiently’
Colorado’s 27-year-old grant program for parks and open space was performing well, the state’s Legislative Audit Committee was told Monday. “They operate — this is my opinion — very effectively and efficiently on a small staff,” Kimberley Higgins said of Great Outdoors Colorado. Higgins’s firm, Eide Bailly, LLP, was contracted to do a financial and performance…
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Sen. Sonnenberg’s plans to tap lottery funds for Colorado schools fails in Senate committee
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save While Democrats on the Colorado Senate’s State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee want to find solutions for funding the state’s schools, they aren’t willing to touch lottery funds to do it. The Senate committee voted along party lines Monday to reject Senate Concurrent Resolution 1,…
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Sen. Sonnenberg’s plans to tap lottery funds for Colorado schools fails in Senate committee
While Democrats on the Colorado Senate’s State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee want to find solutions for funding the state’s schools, they aren’t willing to touch lottery funds to do it. The Senate committee voted along party lines Monday to reject Senate Concurrent Resolution 1, offered by Republican Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg of Sterling. Currently, under…