​Protecting, defending, & enhancing
your Roaring Fork Watershed
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LATEST NEWS

ROBINSON DITCH
​PROJECT UNDERWAY!

​Between December 2020 and spring 2021, Pitkin County Healthy Rivers will be making a number of boater safety and habitat improvements to the Robinson Ditch Diversion, located on the Roaring Fork River between downtown Basalt and Willits. Please be aware this section of river will be closed during in-stream construction.

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RICD WATER RIGHT
​NOW ABSOLUTE!

On November 22, 2020, Colorado Water Court decreed the Pitkin County RICD water right, the water right underlying the Healthy Rivers Whitewater Park, as absolute - the culmination of Pitkin County's decades long effort to protect the peak flows of the Roaring Fork River.

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SCHOLARSHIP
​PROGRAM EXPANDED!

In 2021, Healthy Rivers will award THREE $5,000 scholarships to area high school students who demonstrate an interest in protecting, defending, and enhancing the rivers of the Roaring Fork Watershed. The upcoming application deadline is Feb. 17, 2021.

APPLICATION INFO HERE

YOUR
WATERSHED
MATTERS!
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AMAZING RIVERS

MILES OF STREAM

​ACRE FEET OF WATER ANNUALLY
DISCHARGED INTO THE COLORADO RIVER

SUPPORTING...

COMMUNITY

AGRICULTURE

RECREATION

WILDLIFE

ECOLOGY

OUR FOCUS

The Healthy Rivers program was created by a 0.1 sales tax (equal to 10 cents of every $100 purchase) authorized by Pitkin County voters in 2008.  The tax measure mandates the River Board's objectives as follows:

IMPROVING
WATER QUANTITY
& QUALITY​

We maintain and improve water quality and quantity within the  Roaring Fork watershed.


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PROTECTING 
​WATER FOR THE WATERSHED

We purchase, adjudicate changes of, lease, use, bank, sell, and protect water rights for the benefit of the Roaring Fork watershed.

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AUGMENTING
​STREAM
FLOWS​

We work to secure, create and augment minimum stream flows in conjunction with non-profits, grant agencies, and appropriate State and Federal agencies to ensure ecological health, recreational opportunities, and wildlife and riparian habitat.

PROMOTING
​WATER
​CONSERVATION

We promote water conservation.
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ENHANCING
WATERSHED
FACILITIES

We improve and construct capital facilities that contribute to the objectives listed above.

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​OUR WORK