Aspen Journalism
Homestake Creek flows from Homestake Reservoir near Red Cliff. A pilot reservoir release to test how to get water to the state line in the event of a Colorado River Compact Call proved hard to track for state engineers.
Bethany Blitz/Aspen Journalism
In September, Front Range water providers released some water downstream which they were storing in Homestake Reservoir to test how they could get it to the state line in the event of a Colorado River Compact call.
But accurately tracking and measuring that water from the high mountain reservoir in the Eagle River watershed all the way through the Colorado River at the end of the Grand Valley turned out to be tricky, according to a recently released report from the Colorado Division of Water Resources.
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