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Rio Blanco Secures Water Right for Wolf Creek Reservoir Project

by Special to the Herald Times on January 14, 2021

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RBC | Six years after the application was filed, a judge has granted a water conservancy district in northwest Colorado a water right for a new dam-and-reservoir project that top state engineers had opposed.

This map shows the potential locations of the proposed White River storage project, also known as the Wolf Creek project, on the White River between Rangely and Meeker.

Rio Blanco Water Conservancy District now has a 66,720 acre-foot conditional water right…