Owns the water
State law and the state engineer's office decide who has the right to a stream in a given year.
Fund · statewide
Colorado Healthy Rivers Fund
Statewide fund created by the General Assembly in 2002 and financed by the Colorado income tax refund check-off, supporting on-the-ground projects for cleaner water, healthier habitat, and improved recreation.
Works statewide
Their role in the four decisions
How to read Colorado Healthy Rivers Fund
Plans ahead
Basin roundtables and statewide planning set priorities for supply, rivers, and agriculture.
Pays for the work
Colorado Healthy Rivers Fund funds or coordinates water work that other groups carry out.
Does it on the ground
Watershed groups, utilities, districts, and volunteers do the physical work.
Neighborhood
Who they work with
Each relationship below is read off a public page, not inferred.
GOVERNANCE
Colorado Watershed Assembly manages the Colorado Healthy Rivers Fund and led the legislative campaign to reinstate it as a tax check-off program.
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