At its January 2010 meeting, the Colorado Water Conservation Board will be making a decision on whether to accept an interest in a water right on Washington Gulch, outside the Town of Crested Butte. This project was brought before the Board at the November 2009 meeting by Colorado Water Trust...Read more.
Colorado Water Trust is pleased to have been selected as a recipient of a Conservation Excellence Grant, a new grant program from Great Outdoors Colorado. The intent of the new grant program is to provide funding for conservation planning and other activities that improve and expand the capacity of organizations to achieve quality land conservation. CWT is one of 10 recipients of this new grant program. We will be using the funds to breathe new life into our Technical Assistance Program (TAP). The goal of TAP is to increase awareness of the role of water in land conservation and to promote best-practices management of water rights that are included in conservation easements. The program will have three primary elements:
Water Rights Education Workshops. These full-day workshops will be held around the state and will provide information on the basics of water law, the intersection of water and land conservation, and water transactions.
Water Rights Model Language Revision. CWT will update the existing water rights model language to incorporate the current state of the law and make changes to accommodate the needs of land conservation professionals that use it.
Water Rights Consultations. CWT will assist six land trusts in identifying, cataloging, and efficiently managing water rights encumbered by their conservation easements.