Burlington Public Library

Coloradoans recognize that our long term economic health hinges on the availability of adequate, clean, reliable water supplies. As future demands for municipal, recreational, agricultural, and industrial uses continue to increase throughout the state providing adequate water supplies will become more challenging. The water supply situation in northwest Douglas County serves as an example of the challenge of providing an adequate municipal water supply....

"It was a soft, early spring morning with the mist still clinging to the mountain and the blackbirds just starting to swoop low over the alfalfa fields when Jo Mondragon - thirty-six with not much to show for it, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble - slammed his battered pick-up to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground his father had once cultivated. Carefully, impulsively (and also illegally), he tapped...