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State engineer orders Tropic Reservoir drained; county vows to challenge decision
Summary
A state engineer ordered the draining of Tropic Reservoir, county commissioners said, leaving irrigators and recreation users without the reservoir. Garfield County officials say they are pushing back and exploring legal and administrative options.
A state engineer has ordered the gate at Tropic Reservoir raised so the reservoir will be drained, county officials reported during a Garfield County Commission meeting.
The order, the commissioner said during board reports, came from the state engineer’s office and directs control of the gate to state staff. The commissioner said the reservoir was “almost empty” at the time of the call and predicted that by the end of the week it would be “no more,” reduced to a channel.
The county speaker described the reservoir as originally constructed in 1888 and later raised in the 1970s to store more water for local irrigators and recreation. The commissioner said previous…
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