To the Editor, Chaffee County commissioners are considering renewing Nestlé Waters permit to extract up to 65 million gallons of water per year for another ten years. Up to 25 trucks per day are permitted to haul water 130 miles to Denver, where the water is packaged in single-use plastic bottles and sold under the …
By Dawne Belloise It’s the first week of spring and the sky unleashed the copious amounts of snow that it stingily withheld from us all winter. As I stare numbly out the window, I catch an unrecognizable reflection of a disheveled elderly woman vacantly gazing past me. It is as much of a surreal moment …
By Ron Sering The revegetation of CB Ranch near Coaldale will continue through a stewardship agreement between the Colorado Springs-based Palmer Land Trust and the Security Water and Sanitation District. The 200-acre plot of land near Coaldale was acquired by the city of Security in 2013. Under terms of the acquisition, the Security Water and …
By Peter Anderson “Dad, I’m scared,” my oldest daughter said, and she had good reason to be. We were going on our second hour of being stranded in a ground blizzard on the shoulder of Highway 285, out in the middle of South Park. Seventy mile an hour winds were rocking her little Subaru. It …
By Forrest Whitman Winter is the perfect time to catch the train called the Chief. The trip begins early with a drive along U.S. Hwy. 50 to Cotopaxi. Snow highlights those fantastic rock formations, and the upper Arkansas River sparkles in the pink dawn. You’re in a good mood – off to catch a train! …
By John Mattingly It’s been a year or so since Renewable Water Resources (RWR) went public with a plan to export San Luis Valley groundwater to the “great and growing cities” on the Front Range. So far, there have been meetings and discussions and opinions but no actual filing by RWR with the district water …