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The name, Cache la Poudre (French for 'Hide the Powder'), [5] is a corruption of the original Cache à la Poudre, [6] or "cache of powder". It refers to an incident in the 1820s when French trappers, caught by a snowstorm, were forced to bury part of their gunpowder along the banks of the river.
The Cache La Poudre River Corridor National Heritage Area extends along the flood plain of the Cache La Poudre River in Colorado, US.It is a federally designated National Heritage Area, [1] extending for 45 miles (72 km) from Larimer County in the west where the river emerges from the Rocky Mountains, and ends near Greeley, Colorado, just before its confluence with the South Platte River.
The Laramie River lies about 225 feet (69 m) higher than the Cache La Poudre River at this location [2] separated only by a mountain ridge. The Laramie-Poudre Tunnel is located about 45 miles (72 km) west-northwest of Fort Collins, Colorado , about 20 miles (32 km) south of the Wyoming border and about 25 miles (40 km) north of Rocky Mountain ...
The Passaic River Coalition (PRC) is an organization based out of Willow Hall in Morristown, New Jersey. [1] The coalition is an urban watershed association active since 1969 in protecting water quality and quantity of the entire Passaic River watershed of northern New Jersey and Rockland and Orange Counties, New York.
In honor of her 85th birthday the Nashua River Watershed Association, the organization that Stoddart founded, held a fundraising drive to support programs and activities that will expand, promote, and permanently protect the greenways along the rivers, streams, and wetlands in the Nashua River watershed. [8]
The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's (UMCES) 17th annual Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card was issued at the Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) office in ...
The winning organization was the Conewango Creek Watershed Association, a non-profit organization based in North Warren, Pennsylvania, who received a $10,000 grant intended to be used to integrate the "River of the Year" message into a river sojourn focusing on the watershed's history, wildlife, local fisheries, and related topics. Other ...
Restrictions on projects include: the size of the watershed must be 250,000 acres (1011 km²) or less; no single structure may provide more than 12,500 acre-feet (15,400,000 m 3) of flood water retention; no single dam may provide more than 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3) of total capacity; and projects with costs greater than $5 million or ...