Could groundwater become the Arkansas Valley’s next water challenge? - La Junta Tribune-Democrat

Could groundwater become the Arkansas Valley’s next water challenge? - La Junta Tribune-Democrat

Joe ZembaBent County Democrat New state study of southeastern Colorado aquifers raises important questions for Bent, Otero counties Water has always determined the fate of southeastern Colorado. It dictated where towns were founded, where railroads stopped, and where farms and ranches could survive. Along the Arkansas River, generations of producers transformed an arid landscape into one of Colorado’s most productive agricultural regions throug…