Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you’re about to spend the day with family and friends…and food. Just remember, you are what you eat.
Day: November 25, 2010
Snowpack news
Hello La Niña.
From the Fort Collins Coloradoan (Bobby Magill):
Snowfall during the past several days has given the snowpack a big boost, with some Northern Colorado snowpack monitoring stations reporting a snow depth 200 percent of normal or greater. A monitoring station in the Medicine Bow Mountains near the Rawah Wilderness reported a snowpack of 221 percent of normal Tuesday morning.
The basinwide snowpack in the South Platte River Basin, which includes Poudre Canyon, was 154 percent of normal overall, and the North Platte and Laramie River Basin, which includes North Park and Cameron Pass, was 186 percent of normal on Tuesday.
Fort Morgan: Water rates go up January 1
From The Fort Morgan Times (Dan Barker):
The monthly base charge for water will rise from $34.13 a month to $35.83 per month, and the volume charge will go from $2.52 per 1,000 gallons to $2.65 as of Jan. 1, said water resources Director Gary Dreessen. However, the wastewater rates will not rise, City Manager Pat Merrill said.
A water and wastewater study completed by The Engineering Company indicates that a rate adjustment is needed to balance the water department budget, he said. Like other departments, the water department has limited its capital projects this year to help balance the 2011 budget, Dreessen said.
More infrastructure coverage here.
Pueblo County plans to bill Colorado Springs a little over $148,000 for legal costs associated with the Southern Delivery System and the winter flow program
From The Pueblo Chieftain (Chris Woodka):
“Colorado Springs should have had this taken care of,” said Jeff Chostner, chairman of the Pueblo County commissioners. “We’re not happy about having to fight with our neighbors because Colorado Springs did not do their job.”
On Tuesday, Pueblo County commissioners and the Pueblo West Metropolitan District board approved a settlement agreement that would end the lawsuit by providing a road map to allow Pueblo West to recover more of the water it’s entitled to under exchanges.Colorado Springs Utilities and the Pueblo Board of Water Works also were part of negotiations and must approve the agreement as well.