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Irrigation and water supply dam. Stanley Canyon Dam 30 ft (9.1 m) 2018 El Paso County: Stanley Canyon Creek: Owned by Colorado Springs Utilities. Unnamed Dam #1 (Lamborn #1) 20 ft (6.1 m) 2002 Fort Morgan
The 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill was an environmental disaster that began at the Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado, [2] when Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) personnel, along with workers for Environmental Restoration LLC (a Missouri company under EPA contract to mitigate pollutants from the closed mine), caused the release of toxic waste water into the Animas River watershed.
2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill in Colorado, August 2015; Mariana dam disaster, Samarco iron ore mine tailings dam failure, Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo to the Atlantic sea. Brazil, November 2015; Orinoco Mining Arc, Venezuela, February 2016; Brumadinho dam disaster of an iron ore mine in Brazil, January 2019
View of Lake Granby (front) and Shadow Mountain Lake, the primary West Slope reservoirs Waterpipes near Flatiron Reservoir in Larimer County. The Colorado–Big Thompson Project (abbreviated C-BT) is a federal water diversion project in Colorado designed to collect West Slope mountain water from the headwaters of the Colorado River and divert it to Colorado's Front Range and plains.
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The Colorado country music singer Chuck Pyle wrote a song titled "Here Comes the Water" celebrating the actions of Colorado State Patrol Sgt. Willis Hugh Purdy who raced the flood down the canyon warning residents. [31] [32] On October 2, 2016, an episode of Colorado Experience premiered on PBS regarding the disaster. [33] [34]
That's actually a short timeline for developing a new water supply, much speedier than building a reservoir over 20 to 30 years, said Reidy. “You're looking at the long-term viewpoint.”
In parts of southeastern Colorado and northeastern New Mexico, along I-25, the cities of Trinidad, Colorado, and Raton, New Mexico, are projected to receive a general 2-3 feet of snow with an ...