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Ratón Pass is a 7,834 ft (2,388 m) elevation mountain pass on the Colorado–New Mexico border in the western United States. It is located on the eastern side of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains between Trinidad, Colorado and Raton, New Mexico , approximately 180 miles (290 km) northeast of Santa Fe .
The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board gave a huge fine for water quality violations against a property owner in rural California. The owners failed to get the necessary permits prior to developing the land, and their growing resulted in discharges of highly erodible sediment and the unauthorized placement of filling a tributary.
The Raton Basin is a geologic structural basin in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. It takes its name from Raton Pass and the town of Raton, New Mexico . In extent, the basin is approximately 50 miles (80 km) east-west, and 90 miles (140 km) north-south, in Huerfano and Las Animas Counties, Colorado , and Colfax County, New Mexico .
If, however, water levels across the system were to drop below 38%, the lower basin plan would spread cuts ranging between 1.5 million to 3.9 million acre-feet across all seven states, plus the ...
A new global analysis finds U.S. states along the Colorado River are under extremely high water stress. ... on a map, the first thing I saw was the Colorado River Basin,” said Samantha Kuzma ...
The Water Quality Control Division implements the federal Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act in Colorado. It is responsible for water control for the state of Colorado to ensure the protection of both the environment and the public. The division enforces these laws through methods such as implementing local laws and regulations ...
The seven U.S. states that draw water from the Colorado River basin are suggesting new ways to determine how the increasingly scarce resource is divvied up when the river can't provide what it ...
Colorado Parks and Wildlife regularly uses data to protect the health of fisheries, which in turn influences Colorado recreation and tourism. Under implementation of Colorado’s Clean Water Act, the Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) uses River Watch data as a primary source for settling and reviewing standards, including annual basin ...