News about South Platte Watershed
Many of the following links are non-federal Exit
March, 2013
Forest to Faucet: Why National Forests Are More Than Recreational Spaces
February, 2013
Rocky Mountain Greenway
On Monday, February 18, 2013, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, and Kate Kramer from Sand Creek Regional Greenway made an important announcement on the Rocky Mountain Greenway and to celebrate the expansion of the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge. Department of Transportation awarded $1.735 million for 7 miles of trails along the Rocky Mountain Greenway. The Rocky Mountain Greenway will connect the Rocky Mountain Arsenal and Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuges with the Two Ponds Refuge and Rocky Mountain National Park. The Rocky Mountain Greenway is part of Department of Interior’s America’s Great Outdoors Initiative and also the Urban Waters Federal Partnership.
- $2 million transit grant fills gaps in Rocky Mountain Greenway
- Funding Announced For Rocky Mountain Greenway
- Rocky Mountain Greenway
- New funding announced for Rocky Mountain Greenway
November, 2012
July/August, 2012
Urban Water Forestry Projects, page 18 (PDF)(40 pp, 5.6 MB, About PDF)
June, 2012
New Freedom Park
- New park, featuring urban garden and playground, opens in east Denver
- New Park A Blessing To Refugee Community In Denver
- Trust for Public Land
May, 2012
Smart Growth America, Spotlight on Sustainability: Denver, CO
South Platte Watershed from the Headwaters to the Denver Metropolitan Area (Colorado)
April, 2012
February, 2012
Fisheries restoration(originally posted Dec, 2011; updated Feb, 2012)
January, 2012
Susan Barnes-Gelt mention of possible GOCO funds for the River Vision Implementation Plan(originally posted Dec, 2011; updated Jan, 2012)
December, 2011
Suncor benzene seepage and goo cleanup by EPA's emergency response program
- Colorado health officials order additional measures from Suncor Energy over benzene seepage
- Benzene is fouling drinking water at Suncor refinery and chemicals are seeping directly into Sand Creek
- Benzene levels remained elevated in Sand Creek after mitigation began; levels lower in the Platte
- Cleanup crews attack toxic goo in South Platte north of Denver
November, 2011
River-restoration guru to target creek in Colorado's Hayman wildfire area