[cobirds] Re: The New Chatfield State Park, Jeffco and Douglas counties

Cobirders,

Before this thread is closed, there is a bit of a misconception in the previous responses.  According to the CSU Colorado Water Knowledge website, consumptive water use in Colorado is 400,000 acre-feet for Municipal & Industrial and 4,700,000 acre-feet for Agriculture or 11.75 more than Municipal/Industrial.  Maybe we should consider that fact before buy Rocky Ford Cantaloupe or Olathe Sweet Corn grown in semi-arid terrain at what cost?

Good Birding,
Steve Stachowiak
Highlands Ranch, CO

On Sunday, August 25, 2019 at 6:44:37 PM UTC-6, Tom Wilberding wrote:

Driving around Chatfield today I wondered why are all the new roads, paths, and parking lots SO FAR from the water. Then I scrolled through the following maps showing the future water level, and see that it is very close to the new parking lots. https://chatfieldreallocation.org/project-map/

For example, the Plum Creek Day Use parking lot is shown about thirty feet from the water, not .67 miles as it exists now. When the water will be raised, where the additional water will come from, and how it will affect many trees which will be underwater, I don't know.

I think Chatfield is still a work-in-progress. Hope the final product will be beneficial to birds.

Tom Wilberding
Littleton, CO

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