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Nonprofit seeks county letters and partnership for Rifle Creek restoration plan
Summary
Middle Colorado Watershed Council presented a six‑and‑a‑half‑mile implementation plan for Rifle Creek, asking Garfield County for foundational support — letters, regulatory coordination, matching funds and integration with city plans — to pursue habitat restoration, irrigation upgrades and watershed health projects.
The Middle Colorado Watershed Council asked Garfield County commissioners for foundational support on an implementation plan to restore about 6.5 miles of Rifle Creek from below Rifle Gap Reservoir to the Colorado River confluence.
Kate Collins, executive director of Middle Colorado Watershed Council, and technical staff told commissioners the project would pair agricultural irrigation‑infrastructure upgrades with in‑channel and riparian habitat work to address an incised channel, sedimentation and intermittent dry reaches tied to water‑rights use and aged ditch infrastructure. Collins said the…
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