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Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District

Special district created by a 1958 Pueblo court decree that repays and allocates the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, the transbasin works the Bureau of Reclamation operates to bring Colorado-basin water into the Arkansas basin across nine southeastern Colorado counties.

Local to Arkansas, Colorado

Their role in the four decisions

How to read Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District

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Owns the water

State law and the state engineer's office decide who has the right to a stream in a given year.

02

Plans ahead

Basin roundtables and statewide planning set priorities for supply, rivers, and agriculture.

03

Pays for the work

State grant programs and statewide funds pay for most local water projects.

04

Does it on the ground

Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District does the on-the-ground work: delivering, treating, restoring, or monitoring water locally.

Neighborhood

Who they work with

Each relationship below is read off a public page, not inferred.

Reclamation's Eastern Colorado Area Office names the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District as a partner on the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project.

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Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District is an official cooperator in NRCS's Colorado Snow Survey Program.

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Pueblo Water

GOVERNANCE

Pueblo Water's published board roster includes a sitting member whose stated role is Senior Policy Manager at the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District.

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