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The environment desk at Aspen Public Radio covers issues in the Roaring Fork Valley and throughout the state of Colorado including water use and quality, impact of recreation, population growth and oil and gas development. APR’s Environment Reporter is Elizabeth Stewart-Severy.

Council approves more spending on water supply studies

Courtesy of Wilderness Workshop

Aspen City Council approved requests Monday night to fund two studies that are designed to analyze the risks to the town’s future water supply.

The contracts are worth a total of $90,000 with a company called Headwaters Corporation. One study will focus on analyzing water supply. This will include consideration of climate change models, as well as other risks, like natural disasters, quality concerns and water rights issues.

The other study will look at the demand for water in Aspen. The consultants will develop a tool to analyze how water use may change because of variables like population growth and climate impacts.

 

Aspen native Elizabeth Stewart-Severy is excited to be making a return to both the Red Brick, where she attended kindergarten, and the field of journalism. She has spent her entire life playing in the mountains and rivers around Aspen, and is thrilled to be reporting about all things environmental in this special place. She attended the University of Colorado with a Boettcher Scholarship, and graduated as the top student from the School of Journalism in 2006. Her lifelong love of hockey lead to a stint working for the Colorado Avalanche, and she still plays in local leagues and coaches the Aspen Junior Hockey U-19 girls.
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