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RBC | The White River Alliance, a local stakeholders group for the White River, met Dec. 4. Erin Light, the Division 6 Water Engineer, who is in charge of all administration of water rights on the White River (and Yampa and Green), was the guest speaker. She announced that Governor Polis had raised the level of drought preparedness from level 2 to level 3 based on the extent of the above average temperatures and below average precipitation. We are currently at 64% of snowpack for the average this year.
She indicated that the White River is making progress on installing head gates with 80 installed this year, and 505 to go in the White. As this is the statutory year for developing a list of water rights that have been abandoned in whole or in part (every 10 years) she is expecting and seeing some objections, and encourages anyone to contact her office (970-879-0272). There are slightly less than 70 water rights on the 2020 abandonment list in the White River basi
There is an age in the lives of all children when they wish their parents were invisible. Everything about them is acutely embarrassing. How many parents have had to park the car around the corner while picking the kids up after school, because to be picked up by one s parents is, of course, the ultimate admission of wimphood? If there is anything worse than parents who are hopelessly outdated, it is parents who are somehow cool. Imagine, for example, the humiliation of having a father who is the host of the midnight monster bash on the local TV channel, and appears in ghoul makeup with blood dripping from his fangs, or an ax embedded in his skull.