Published 3 months ago

Auction of Colorado River water nets $4.7 million

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42 registered bidders gathered at the Boulder County Fairgrounds for a chance to buy some of the 90 units for sale of Colorado-Big Thompson Project water. The first bid for one unit of C-BT water hit a high mark of $72,000, but prices soon stabilized at around $46,000 per unit.

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Greeley Tribune

Auction of Colorado River water nets $4.7 million

Editor’s Note: This story is provided by Aspen Journalism, a nonprofit, investigative news organization. For more, visit http://aspenjournalism.org. LONGMONT — Longmont dairy farmer Jim Docheff has been in the dairy business for all of his 88 years, and his son Joe grows the corn and alfalfa for the dairy cows on the farm east of the city. On Wednesday, Docheff acquired six units of Colorado River water to use on his family farm by outbidding o…

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In $100 million Colorado River deal, water and power collide

The Colorado River District plans to buy the water rights that flow through Colorado's Shoshone hydropower plant. The acquisition is seen as pivotal for a wide swath of the state, and has been co-signed by farmers, environmental groups, and local governments.

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