By Mandy Eskelson
Are you like me, and anxiously waiting for more snow to fall or for rivers to start rising again in the spring? With water on all our minds, we hope you snuggle in by your computer or phone, with a tasty beverage in hand, and join the WEP’s virtual public meeting tonight, Wednesday, December 8 from 5:30 – 7:30pm to check in again on water planning and project development for the upper San Juan, Blanco, and Navajo watersheds.
Click here to find the Zoom link.
We encourage you to pass this information along to all your friends, colleagues, and neighbors so we can get feedback from the community and as many project ideas as possible. Please find the attached agenda and breakout group questions for more details. WEP hopes to share updates on their water planning process and initial project ideas, then work together with all of you to develop a water plan framework and projects that will be further developed and prioritized in 2022.
Thank you so much to those who have taken one or all three of WEP’s surveys for the San Juan, Blanco, and Navajo watersheds.
We noticed areas and locations that had been marked within the San Juan watershed survey are currently not showing on the interactive map found at http://www.mountainstudies.org/sanjuan/smp.
We hope to remedy this technical issue immediately so we can all discuss these project areas during the public meeting. You can still view areas survey participants have marked within the Blanco and Navajo watersheds though.
If anyone from this list already submitted a project idea in one of the watershed surveys but is unable to attend tomorrow’s meeting, I am happy to pass along any info you would like to have the public consider when developing project lists.
Thank you and hope to “see” you tomorrow!
Mandy Eskelson is Water Programs Research Associate with Mountain Studies Institute.