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To meet future demands, Denver Water has proposed to develop 18,000 acre-feet per year of new water from the Upper Colorado River basin. Denver Water’s prefered project, currently being evaluated by the Army Coprs of Engineers (ACOE), includes raising Gross Reservoir on South Boulder Creek in Boulder County to store an additional 72,000 acre-feet of water from the Fraser River and Upper Colorado basin. AW is evaluating how severely the project will impact paddling opportunities in the Upper Colorado and

American Whitewater has been working for three years to get improved flows on the McCloud River, quite possibly the best class III/ IV wilderness run in California. In order for this to become a reality we need your support!  We need to get letters off to the resource agencies ASAP to show that whitewater boaters are interested in the McCloud.   The agencies have proposed a flow schedule that we think is a huge improvement over the existing flows.  This flow

Earlier this month American Whitewater was invited as the sole public witness to testify on the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Additions and Pratt and Snoqualmie Rivers Protection Act. You can read a copy of our testimony as delivered before the House Subcommitee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands through the link to the right. While no public witnesses were invited to testify before the Senate, we worked with a number of our partner organizations to submit joint written testimony which

As you review the winter appeal letter I’d ask that you consider a couple of things. First, membership in American Whitewater is more than a subscription to our Journal. Your membership fuels our stewardship work. For each dollar that you give, American Whitewater is able to leverage that dollar for another two dollars in foundation and sponsorship support. Thus, your dollars go three times as far in supporting on-the-ground river projects. Second, American Whitewater is very lean administratively. Over the

The November/December issue of the AW Journal is our INFLATABLES ISSUE featuring:   * R2-ing the Grand Canyon * Epic Descent of Inflatables on the Green Truss * Taming the Tons River, Uttarakhand, India * High Water Fun on the New River * Arkansas Raft Guides on the Gauley * Inflatable Rescue Ranger . . . plus much more!   Want to read the AW Journal online? You need a current membership and you must be registered with the AW

Surprise fall boatable flows are now expected on the NF Feather river in California.   The releases will be into the Poe Dam to Poe Powerhouse section, starting November 11, 2009 and lasting one or two months.   The next run downstream, Big Bend will also continue to receive boatable flows.    At the same time, PG&E is now supplying flow information for this reach and AW is posting that information online.  See: http://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/Gauge2/detail/id/49034/ This is the latest in a growing number

The Youghiogheny River is being threatened by a proposed 480-acre strip mine. Amerikohl Mining Co. has proposed the Curry Mine right next to Ohiopyle State Park and the Great Allegheny Bike trail. This proposed mine could harm the Yough and two of its high quality tributaries, Morgan Run and Johnson Run. The Mountain Watershed Association (MWA), home of the Youghiogheny Riverkeeper , has led and organized the local effort to defend our river from this mine. To date, MWA has

  The US Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, (Corps) is preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to evaluate the environmental consequences of the proposed Moffat Collection System Project (Moffat Project), submitted by the Denver Water Department (Denver Water) Denver, Colorado. To meet their projected future water needs, Denver Water proposes to develop 18,000 acre-feet per year of new, annual firm yield water delivered to the Moffat Treatment Plant and raw water customers upstream of the Moffat Treatment Plant pursuant

Just in time for the Holidays this year, American Whitewater will be offering two books for sale from well-known paddler and author Doug Ammons: Whitewater Philosophy and Laugh of the Water Nymph.   These books are some of the most well read in the all of whitewater. What’s more, purchasing these books helps support American Whitewater but also Doug’s decades long efforts to support rural schools in Nepal. Check out the book links for full details.   We hope you’ll

For the low price of $45, this package includes a one year membership with American Whitewater (or a one year extension to a current membership) plus a copy of Doug Ammons’ book "Whitewater Philosophy"!   This package deal could be the perfect gift for the whitewater paddler in your life, or a great way to renew your own membership. A year saving rivers with AW and a book from one of the highest regarded whitewater writers and paddlers in the

American Whitewater has reached agreement with Snohomish PUD and other parties to the relicensing of the Jackson Hydropower Project on the Sultan River. The future proposed license will support whitewater boating on the Sultan River and in particular the reach between Culmback Dam and the Powerhouse known as the Upper Sultan. The Settlement Agreement was signed earlier this month and celebrated yesterday in a ceremony at the powerhouse. Over the coming year federal regulators will review the agreement and we