From the Snowmass Sun (Janet Urquhart):
Pitkin County commissioners agreed Tuesday to spend $50,000 on the study, using proceeds from the tax-supported Healthy Rivers and Streams Fund…
A Roaring Fork Watershed Plan being developed by the Roaring Fork Conservancy and Ruedi Water and Power Authority will get a $38,000 boost from the fund to cover a shortfall in finishing the plan, plus $5,000 for other costs, including a couple of educational events planned in 2011…
Commissioners also supported a $100,000 allocation from the fund to pay for legal and engineering fees associated with seeking a recreational water right on the Roaring Fork River in Basalt. The water right would protect flows in the river to benefit river ecology, as well as recreation. A kayak park in the river at Basalt is envisioned.
Click through for the cool photo of Castle Creek running by the site of Aspen’s proposed hydroelectric facility.
More Roaring Fork watershed coverage here.