|
ABOUT |  |
ARTICLES | |
FORUM | |
RESOURCES | |
GALLERY | |
CROSS |
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Articles July 22, 2024 Lithium corporations pursue limited water supplies in the Colorado River Basin Every new water diversion is a threat to sustainibility in the Colorado River Basin July 14, 2024 The Industrialization of an original farming community in Emery County, Utah The unending saga of speculation for the City of Green River April 09, 2024 Dam safety concerns at Glen Canyon Dam Glen Canyon Dam can only manage little droughts and little floods. When the big ones arrive, this dam will fail. March 22, 2024 Bears Ears National Monument Resource Management Plan June 11, 2024 is the date when the public comment period ends March 06, 2024 Post-2026 EIS: Scoping for Reconsultation of Interim Guidelines We hope we are wrong, but we predict that this revised planning document will become another failure. March 05, 2024 Our Analysis of 2023 Final Supplemental EIS for dam operations at Hoover and Glen Canyon It is important to understand that the original plan of 2007 was to avoid an emergency water shortage situation. February 29, 2024 Canyonlands National Park seeks public input on river management plan for the Green and Colorado rivers Long awaited river management plan is now underway January 30, 2024 Wyoming Dam Proposal on the Little Snake River at West Fork of Battle Creek Building redundant dams for the last 120 years has not solved the water scarcity problem. November 06, 2023 Final Supplemental EIS for Operations at Glen Canyon Dam Revisiting Glen Canyon Dam's Long-term Experimental Management Plan (LTEMP) September 11, 2023 White River and Wolf Creek Reservoir Storage Project Proposal Off river storage project with pumpback hydropower facility June 20, 2023 Water and Tribes Initiative: Conference of June 8th and 9th, 2023 VIDEOS: Getches-Wilkinson Center; University of Colorado at Boulder June 10, 2023 24-Month Study Reports for Colorado River Operations Archive of monthly reports from the Bureau of Reclamation since 2007 March 14, 2023 The photographic history of construction at Glen Canyon Damsite - 1956 to 1966 A visual chronology of events to build redundant infrasructure for an overapproriated river basin. January 27, 2023 Los Angeles Times: Colorado River in Crisis Special features by staff from The Los Angeles Times November 17, 2022 The 2023 Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for operations at Glen Canyon Dam and Hoover Dam The anticipated emergency plan for dam operations has arrived November 04, 2022 In the US Supreme Court: Arizona et al. vs Navajo Nation Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Navajo Nation and then the dominant society petitioned the high court to grant oral arguments November 01, 2022 Part One: Citizen and Professional Science in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Low reservoir elevations at Lake Powell provide repeat photographic opportunities and reservoir sediment science October 23, 2022 Part Two: Citizen and Professional Science in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Low reservoir elevations at Lake Powell provide repeat photographic opportunities and reservoir sediment science October 21, 2022 Part Three: Citizen and Professional Science in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Low reservoir elevations at Lake Powell provide repeat photographic opportunities and reservoir sediment science September 13, 2022 The seven states have surrendered to a no action policy at a critical time in the history of the Reclamation Era System collapse is now a possiblity. June 23, 2022 Reclamation announces a public opportunity: prepare prescoping comments to develop new operating criteria for the Colorado River Basin It is important for the public to understand that the promises of the 2007 plan have failed at every level January 01, 2022 2022: The Year of Decision? Analysis of the DROA Process: Poor management, over-consumption and climate disruption collided in Year 2021. July 26, 2021 Part One A: Preparing Comments for Public Participation During the Reconsultation of Interim Guidelines NEWS AND OPINIONS BY DATE about the troubled waters in the Colorado River Basin July 25, 2021 Part One B: Preparing Comments for Public Participation During the Reconsultation of Interim Guidelines NEWS AND OPINION BY SUBJECT about the troubled waters in the Colorado River Basin July 24, 2021 Part Two: Preparing Comments for Public Participation During the Reconsultation of Interim Guidelines Narratives: Old and New July 23, 2021 Part Three: Preparing Comments for Public Participation During the Reconsultation of Interim Guidelines The Physical and Social Sciences July 13, 2021 Part Four: Preparing Comments for Public Participation During the Reconsultation of Interim Guidelines Solutions, Climate Adaptation, Sustainibility and Resilence February 22, 2021 Preparing Comments for Public Participation During the Reconsultation of Interim Guidelines Will the movement to make communities and ecosystems sustainable in the Colorado River Basin prevail? January 03, 2021 The Documents for the 7D Review of 2007 Interim Guidleines The actvities related to compliance of the 2007 Record of Decision January 01, 2021 Film: The Unfinished Fight Of Seldom Seen Sleight A documentary about Ken Sleight, the senior river activist on the Colorado River December 09, 2020 Cove Reservoir Dam and Reservoir Project Yet another water grab by Kane County Water Conservancy District September 24, 2020 Water Right Hearing for the Lake Powell Pipeline in Washington County Renewal of Application to Appropriate September 18, 2020 Colorado River System Mid- to Long-term Projections Reservoir conditions for Lakes Powell and Mead fom 2018 to 2025 August 04, 2020 Part Two: Lake Powell Pipeline Project's Administrative Record, Beginning in Year 2019 Part One can be found below August 01, 2020 Another Water Grab by Utah in the West Desert Compromising groundwater management plans in Utah June 11, 2020 Lake Powell Pipeline Project Draft Environmental Impact Study 90 day public comment period ends September 8, 2020 February 21, 2020 The many conversations in the Colorado River Basin to prepare for different reservoir operations by 12/31/2025 The pathway that is warming the ocean and atmosphere requires a change of course for Colorado River management. December 08, 2019 Part Two: Paradox Valley Salinity Control Unit DEIS & public comments Part Two: The administrative history of Paradox Salinity Control Program December 05, 2019 Reclamation announces scoping for Lake Powell Pipeline Project Comment period is only 30 days ends at Midnight on Friday, January 10, 2020 September 26, 2019 FERC grants two Preliminary Permits for two dams in gorge of Little Colorado River and two dams on rim's bench The applicant is Pumped Hydro Storage, LLC at Phoenix, AZ September 23, 2019 Part One: The Administrative Record for the Lake Powell Pipeline Project The story of a 60-year old project that just can't carry what it has lifted. August 18, 2019 Administrative Record of Long Term Experiental and Management Plan for Glen Canyon Dam Operations December 2005 to January 2016 August 06, 2019 Uinta Basin Railway Environmental Impact Statement Proposal to construct a railroad to transport Utah's fossil fuel reserves to markets June 26, 2019 Final Green and Colorado Comprehensive Management Plan Development and Mineral Leasing Plan The Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands is developing the first comprehensive management plans for sovereign land sections of the Colorado and Green Rivers January 07, 2019 Army Corps of Engineers accepting public comments for Lake Powell Pipeline Compliance to 404 Permitting Process October 22, 2018 The Water Rights of Central Utah Project, including Ultimate Phase Sorting out a very complicated system of water rights in Utah begins here October 16, 2018 Compilation of Graphics about Colorado River Resources and its Management Graphics by various organizations and institutions October 15, 2018 The Administrative Record of Interim Guidelines A chronology and information for the reconsultation of Interim Guidelines on January 1, 2021 October 12, 2018 Fontenelle Dam and Reservoir An earthen dam on the Upper Green River and the September 18, 2018 Green River Block Environmental Assessment for a Federal Water Contract with Eastern Utah Counties Yet another proposed diversion for water that only exists on paper August 24, 2018 Water Quality and Limnology On the Colorado River As reservoir levels diminish, so does water quality August 22, 2018 Lake Powell Pipeline Permitting Process is Renewed Utah Water Resources Board submits request to FERC for reinstatement July 11, 2018 Proposal for Transfer of Federal Land Parcels in Uintah County to State of Utah SITLA petitions BLM for Oil Shale Property surrounding Enefit Property July 09, 2018 New Mexico Unit of Central Arizona Project: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement, Gila River and San Francisco River Yet another proposed diversion for water on paper June 28, 2018 Proposal to amend the Arizona Strip Resource Management Plan (RMP) Evaluation of the proposed Lake Powell Pipeline route in the Kanab Creek Area of Critical Environmental Concern June 07, 2018 Drought Contingency Planning in the Colorado River Basin A document archive for a plan that is now three years overdue and counting June 05, 2018 Water Horse Resource's Export Application for Proposed Water Pipeline from Utah to Colorado's Front Range Aaron Million's third attempt to delliver water for growth in the drainage of the Mississippi River May 18, 2018 BLM releases Final EIS for Enefit America's Utility Corridor to Mine and Process Oil Shale Oil shale processing will load the atmosphere with huge amounts of carbon dioxide emissions December 26, 2017 Lake Powell Pipeline Approved for Environmental Analysis (Temorarily Suspended) Public comment period ends March 26 (date to be revised). Helpful comments provided here for citizen participation January 13, 2017 Paleoflood Analysis of the Colorado River Basin A look at slack water deposits, driftwood, tree ring data, atmospheric rivers and streamflow gages January 05, 2017 Moab Master Leasing Plan: A Document Archive Bureau of Land Management Record of Decision and Final Environmental Impact Statement September 06, 2016 The Little Colorado River & Coconino Plateau A watershed of great diversity and culture June 21, 2016 Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for New Federal Coal Leasing Program Interior plans to slightly reform the nation's coal leasing program March 03, 2016 The Utah CIB and a Public Give-Away This paper describes what is known or can be implied from public documents about the processes that led to granting of the $53 million loan by the CIB February 08, 2016 Carbon Tax and Trading How it works and why it fails January 25, 2016 Glen Canyon Dam Final EIS released after a six-year delay This experimental management plan maintains the status quo and fails to address the ecosystem dysfunction in Grand Canyon June 29, 2015 Document archive for the Next Step Committees & Public Comment Period Moving Forward Program with the Colorado River Basin Supply and Demand Study February 28, 2015 The 70-year Administrative Record of Impending Water Shortages and the Failure to Act Appropriately Backwards planning: managing the end of the pipe and not the beginning February 26, 2015 Lake Mead Will Go Dry On the threshold of a predicted collapse of the Colorado River hydro-society December 15, 2014 The Eastern Utah County Coalition for the Development of Oil and Gas Infrastructure Proposal by public servants using public funds for corporate aid August 23, 2014 Favorite Documents: On The Colorado Website These documents have priceless information about the Colorado River Basin June 27, 2014 Scholarly Reviews of Governance on the Colorado River Here you will find links to papers written by attorneys February 05, 2014 Gray Canyon Energy Proposes a Refinery at the City of Green River, Utah Project previously called Iron Fox Refinery and next to a defunct refinery January 15, 2014 The Bishop Process: Eastern Utah Public Lands Exchange Proposal for Wilderness and Mineral Extraction Where the tributaries of the Colorado River gather, the industrialization of eastern Utah begins January 08, 2014 Refineries in the Clorado River Basin and within its water service districts Refineries use about 1 to 2.5 gallons of water for every gallon of product January 08, 2014 Selenium Control Program for Eastern Utah State agencies are concerned about water quality issues for the Colorado River November 24, 2013 Long Canyon Hydropower Pumpback Project Peaking hydropower generation project proposal in Grand County November 22, 2013 Potash Development Proposals Adjacent to Arches and Canyonlands National Park A speculator's conundrum: lot's of potash, but no water for solution mining. November 06, 2013 Green River Refinery Proposed for Emery County near Green River, Utah Project will refine unconventional fuels from the strip mining of rocks bearing kerogen and bitumen November 01, 2013 White River Flow Recommendations and Programmatic Biological Opinion US Fish and Wildlife Service to develop and implement a White River Management Plan for proposed development of unconventional energy fuels October 18, 2013 Enefit's Utah Oil Shale Project near the White River: An Environmental Impact Statement Mining and processing operation will impair the White River and significantly increase air pollution October 18, 2013 Red Leaf Resources' Eco-Shale Project in Eastern Utah This proposed kerogen mining project will likely emit more greenhouse gas per barrel than any other unconventional fuel project in the world June 04, 2013 Asphalt Ridge Leasing of Federal Lands for Proposed Tar Sands Strip Mining Operations The edge of the oil patch will now border the city limits of Vernal, UT June 02, 2013 The Administrative Record Regarding the Proposed Mining of Tar Sands in Eastern Utah This campaign for climate justice in the Colorado River basin is now four years old May 29, 2013 Green River Tusher Wash Diversion Dam Rehabilitation Project Natural Resources and Conservation Service initiates Environmental Impact Statement December 12, 2012 USBR's Demand and Supply Study for the Colorado River Basin of 2012 How to make the Colorado River more vulnerable than it already is November 09, 2012 Oil Shale and Tar Sands Final PEIS Issued in November & Protests issued in December Bureau of Land Management places a priority research and development, but and oil shale & tar sand development will be catastrophic to air and water resources. November 07, 2012 Energy Fuels' Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill Proposed for Paradox Valley Document Archive of administrative hearing of Sheep Mountain Alliance et al v. Energy Fuels October 15, 2012 Part One: Public Scoping for Salinity Control in the Paradox Valley Part One: The administrative History of Paradox Salinity Control Program March 19, 2012 GASCO's proposed watershed invasion of Desolation Canyon BLM poised to allow drilling for oil and gas adjacent to the corridor of the Green River October 18, 2011 Glen Canyon Dam Long-Term Experimental and Management Plan & Environmental Impact Statement The Bureau of Reclamation and the National Park Service will prepare an environmental impact statement for operations at Glen Canyon Dam September 02, 2011 Clark, Lincoln, and White Pine Counties Groundwater Development Project The Draft EIS comment period has been extended to October 11, 2011 August 10, 2011 Administrative Record of Mining Oil Shale Deposits in Eastern Utah The mining and processing of a low-value waxy kerogen is water and energy intensive August 03, 2011 Flaming Gorge Pipeline Documents The Regional Watershed Supply Project (RWSP) and permit application by Million Conservation Resource Group July 28, 2011 Public scoping meetings for the Department of Energy Uranium Leasing Program Lawsuit generates a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement May 05, 2011 Oil Shale and Tar Sands Programmatic EIS by the Bureau of Land Management At risk are 2 million acres that will consume land, water and energy resources in a watershed that has nothing left to give March 21, 2011 Lake Powell Pipeline Documents Draft Study Reports to the FERC Commission for the Lake Powell Hydroelectric Project No. 12966 December 18, 2010 The Hoover Dam Documents The Law of the River as an ongoing chronology and listing of legal documents pertaining to the management of the Colorado River November 19, 2010 Who Will We Blame When the Tap Runs Dry? The Southwest faces climate change and unsustainable growth, as water managers fail to institute timely policies for thrift and conservation June 17, 2010 Strip Mining for Tar Sands Proposed in Canyon Country The Uinta Basin watershed is not a sacrifice zone for the corporations of dirty oil production June 03, 2010 Ultimate Phase Water Rights Stored at Flaming Gorge Reservoir The story of a paper water right looking for wet water projects and the billions that will be spent to chase it May 18, 2010 Blue Castle Holdings: Nuclear power proposal along the Green River in Utah Blue Castle Holdings is the rising mountebank of the Colorado Plateau April 11, 2010 The One-Dam Solution Proposed strategy for managing the Colorado River and the aquifers of the seven basin states February 08, 2010 The Lake Powell Research Project Natural and social sciences bear on the general problem of the effects and ramifications of water resource management in the Lake Powell region January 16, 2010 The Water Imbalance of the Colorado River Basin Water security in the West is not achievable if water greed continues to dominate the political landscape August 19, 2009 Adaptive Management Program Documents for Operations at Glen Canyon Dam A project to provide a more complete and user-friendly archive of public documents for people concerned about impairment of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park March 17, 2009 Rainbow Bridge National Monument and Navajo Mountain, Utah An irreplaceable natural wonder and sacred site remains encroached upon by Glen Canyon Dam's reservoir, Lake Powell. January 23, 2009 The Powell Survey of the 1870s: Art & Science from the Saddle For John Wesley Powell, the foot outperformed the river boat for scientific accomplishments. January 01, 2009 The Endangered Fish of the Colorado River Basin Bureaucratic bean counting is why these fish suffer. November 04, 2008 Aquifer Recharge, Storage and Recovery A solution for storing surplus water from the Colorado RIver October 23, 2008 Coal-burning Power Plants of the Colorado River Basin The Colorado Plateau takes the brunt of coal-fired pollution from existing and proposed power plants. October 03, 2008 A Legal History of Operations at Glen Canyon Dam A chronology about the struggle for the Bureau of Reclamation and the Department of Interior to be compliant with federal law. September 09, 2008 The Colorado River Research Program Initiated in 1973 by the National Park Service, a systematic approach studies the human-caused impacts to Grand Canyon. August 27, 2008 Escalante National Monument: a history of the first proposal Roosevelt and Truman administrations tried to protect San Juan, Glen, Narrow and Cataract canyons in SE Utah August 21, 2008 The Beginning Years of the Adaptive Management Program for operations at Glen Canyon Dam A chronology with links about the history of initiating an adaptive management scheme, with the intent to improve the values of Grand Canyon National Park May 06, 2008 Announcing: Scoping of environmental issues for the proposed Lake Powell Pipeline Project in Utah and Arizona. Proposed pipeline to deliver overallocated Colorado River water uphill to the sprawling cities in southwestern Utah. April 25, 2008 Towing icebergs to San Pedro: Augmenting dwindling water supplies Colorado River water users to start engineering fixes that are trade offs for more consumption April 13, 2008 Rearranging deck chairs at Glen Canyon Dam Interior is advancing falsehoods, stalling, obstructing, and wasting public funds just like corporate polluters. February 19, 2008 Lake Mead Will Go Dry Find out for yourself with the user friendly Colorado River Open Source Simulator February 09, 2008 Announcing: public comment period on operations of Glen Canyon Dam Reclamation releases Environmental Assessment for public comment on proposed high-flow and steady flow experiment on the Colorado River February 05, 2008 Las Vegas: Mirage in the Mojave Billy Vassiliadis and Pat Mulroy jeopardize not only the interests of those who currently must make a living in Las Vegas, but also those who will have to live there in the future December 17, 2007 Colorado River Shortage Agreement Falls Short The water agreement signed last week by Interior Secretary Kempthorne and the seven states of the Colorado River basin is not a heroic achievement at all. December 08, 2007 Pipe Dreams and Schemes: Escalating Costs for Diminishing Returns Current and proposed water projects are incredibly expensive, micromanage dwindling water resources, and will ensure financial burden and resource dependency for consumers. November 30, 2007 Hydropower is likely to have no future on the Colorado Hydropower is touted as clean and renewable. It is neither. It is also touted as being productive, yet hydropower revenues have fallen to the wayside as a consequence of persistant drought and overconsumption. November 17, 2007 California Coastal Commission tentatively okays seawater desalination plant The quest for augmenting and conserving water supplies to fuel more sprawl has become redundant and absurd. November 14, 2007 OTC launches new Colorado River Simulator With reservoirs lowering, climate change concerns growing, many are asking not if Colorado River water users are heading toward serious shortages, but when. The answers are now just a few keystrokes away. November 13, 2007 Desolation Canyon: History along the Green River A significant contribution to the history of the Green River will be published in 2009 by Utah State University Press, which will include a DVD film of the oral history project for this book. November 02, 2007 Reclamation Issues Final EIS for Colorado River Operations under Low Reservoir Conditions Reclamation announces the release of its proposed management plan (Shortage Criteria) for public review, which is a component of the coordinated long-range operations of Lake Powell and Lake Mead. November 01, 2007 A New and Interactive Web Site Tracks Drought The U.S. Drought Portal was officially launched on November 1, 2007. It was created to provide comprehensive information on emerging and ongoing droughts, and to enhance the nation's drought preparedness. October 17, 2007 The Colorado Riverbed Case, 1929-1931 The Colorado Riverbed Case is the largest known oral history of the people who personally navigated the Colorado River basin in Utah prior to 1929. This extremely rare testimony is now on the worldwide web. October 01, 2007 A Washington Post Article Lauds Wiki Page by River Runners for Wilderness This new wiki page on the World Wide Web provides resources for individuals who want to prepare for their own self-supported Colorado River trip down the Grand Canyon. |
|
|
|
|
||||
|
| |
||
|
||||
All content © 2024 On The Colorado