Wet spring
Snowpack in the Roaring Fork Watershed was recorded at 144% of normal for this time of year on March 23. According to the Roaring Fork Convervancy’s weekly report, “The watershed has not seen cumulative [snow water equivalent] levels this high since 2011!”
Uinta Basin Railway
U.S. Senator Michael Bennet is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to conduct a supplemental review of the Uinta Basin Railway Project to account for the full risks to Colorado’s communities, water supplies, environment and climate. “The EPA’s previous review focused solely on the railway’s risks to Utah and did not evaluate its potential harm to Colorado, despite as many as five, two-mile-long trains of waxy crude oil traveling more than 100 miles across the state and along the Colorado River every day, if the project is completed,” explained a press…
