Colorado’s instream-flow program gives the CWCB the ability to hold water rights specifically for preserving the natural environment “to a reasonable degree” by keeping water flowing in the river.

DNR is hoping to expand and hire more people to analyze the data they’re now gathering, and in the Governor’s supplemental 2024 budget, the post-fire debris flow program is fully funded.

The most recent update of the state’s Coastal Master Plan, in 2017, called for the diversion to have a maximum flow of 35,000 cfs. But in 2020, as part of the state's request to begin the ...