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Pub. Date
2011.
Description
This is an informative tutorial provided to the citizens of Colorado to aid in the understanding of nontributary ground water in the state. As the administrator of ground water use in Colorado, the Division of Water Resources is responsible for water well permitting and providing consultation to the water court on water rights matters. This tutorial is provided in that capacity only and should not be taken as legal advice on specific water rights...
Author
Pub. Date
1991.
Description
In 1969 Colorado acted to clarify its law with respect to under-ground water that is the water in alluvial aquifers hydraulically connected to surface waters. Increasingly this so called tributary groundwater was becoming an important source of supply especially for irrigation. Yet its development had proceeded virtually unregulated until 1965. This paper examines Colorado's experience in integrating the use of tributary groundwater with surface water....
11) Gasland
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
In 2009, filmmaker Josh Fox learned his land was on top of the Marcellus Shale, a giant reservoir of natural gas that stretches across huge stretches of the northeast United States, and that he would be paid to lease his land for natural gas extraction. Fox documented his cross-country trek to find out if the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) is actually safe. What he unearthed was a discovery about a practice that is understudied...
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