Local volunteers from West Denver Trout Unlimited are helping push the effort to create an integrated water management plan for the Clear Creek watershed.
For Clear Creek and Trout Unlimited’s West Denver chapter, Giles answered the call. She and other members of West Denver Trout Unlimited began contacting everyone involved in the watershed — no small task.
Others include the mining and skiing industries, recreational groups, conservation groups, government and water users — like the city of Arvada. Unlike many watersheds, Clear Creek only has one individual who uses the water for agricultural purposes. But it still needs to balance a variety of users with what is best for the water itself.
One of its heaviest lifts will be planning for the entire watershed as one system instead of siloing the upper and lower basins, as past planning efforts often have. The upper basin is what mainly delivers water to users, including water that is stored in Standley Lake and used for drinking and watering lawns in places like Arvada, Westminster, Thornton and Northglenn. The upper watershed also has impacts from CDOT work — like sediment from road deicing efforts — and recreation from rafting to skiing.who live along Clear Creek.
“My dream is that it would work that we all work on that together and it will be something that would give benefit to all of us," Giles says."Not the stream, but us as an organization trying to put projects on the ground and folks living there."
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