Big Beaver Creek Reservoir / Big Beaver Creek & White River
CWT's Request for Water program catalyzed a water lease between Colorado Parks & Wildlife (CPW) and the CWCB, resulting in the CWCB's lease of 3,000 acre-feet ...
Project DetailsYost Ditch / Deep Creek
Just outside of Dotsero along I-70, through its Request for Water 2012 program, CWT leased water from a small ditch to increase faltering flows in Deep Creek. But for this ...
Project DetailsBunte Highline Ditch / Willow Creek
CWT's largest direct flow lease through its Request for Water 2012 program, this water right sustained flows in Willow Creek downstream of Willow Creek Reservoir, down to its ...
Project DetailsAlamosa RIVERKEEPER ®
Over the last six years, CWT has served as a technical consultant to the Alamosa Riverkeeper for water rights and instream flow information as they work to restore the Alamosa ...
Project DetailsThree Sisters Ditch / Hermosa Creek
In the San Juan National Forest just north of Durango, beautiful Hermosa Creek flows into the Animas River. Diverting from Hermosa Creek, the Three Sisters Ditch water ...
Project DetailsStagecoach Reservoir / Yampa River
In an unprecedented contract among the Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District, the CWCB, and the Trust, through its Request for Water 2012 program, CWT utilized Colorado's ...
Project DetailsPitkin County Trust Agreement
In 2001, Pitkin County and CWT began discussing how the County could utilize its water rights to improve flows in the Roaring Fork Basin. Turned out, it was a complicated ...
Project DetailsBreem Ditch / Washington Gulch
Just outside of Crested Butte, a change of point of diversion and a contractual agreement with a downstream water supplier create an opportunity for instream flows on Washington ...
Project DetailsPeabody No. 1 Ditch / Blue River
When Jeannette and Howard Moser began planning to scale back their ranching operations, their local water commissioner, Scott Hummer, introduced them to the Colorado Water ...
Project DetailsCCC Ditch / San Miguel River
In the forty years since the CCC Ditch diversion dam was built on the San Miguel River, a 1500 foot stretch of river below the diversion dam would go dry when the San Miguel ...
Project DetailsHat Creek Ditch / Hat Creek
Hat Creek, home to native cutthroat trout, is a tributary of upper Brush Creek in Eagle County. This water project is the result of years of collaboration among Vail ...
Project DetailsLearn how CWT uses creative, market-based solutions to improve streamflows and keep water in local communities.