Six Colorado organizations will share up to $4 million in funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to advance environmental justice programs across the state.
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Groups from Denver to Pueblo will use the money to expand community gardens, plant trees in heat islands and hold bilingual workshops on wildfire and drought response.
The EPA announced the award Tuesday of nearly $500,000 for the Bessemer Historical Society (Steelworks Center of the West) for the purchase of 100 new Class 2 e-bikes.
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The Riverwalk in downtown Pueblo, on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. The Riverwalk grew out an area of the city destroyed the Arkansas River when it flooded in 1921. In the aftermath, the city redirected the Arkansas around the city to the south.
A century ago the Arkansas River flowed through Pueblo in the channel that is now the HARP, or the Historic Arkansas Riverwalk of Pueblo. In 1921, swollen by rain and snowmelt, the river overtopped its levees and roared through the low-lying areas of downtown Pueblo, taking the lives of hundreds of people, leaving a 300 square mile swath of destruction and changing the course of the city’s history.