2024 Buena Vista Water Plan

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Project title: 2024 Buena Vista Water Plan

Project purpose or justification: Water is life. We all love being around water and are so fortunate to live in such close proximity to the Arkansas River, Cottonwood Creek, and the myriad other source waters that bring the snow melt down off the majestic mountains all around us. Yet we cannot just stick a pump in the river and supply our homes and businesses with water! Water law dictates who can use how much water from where and when. The State of Colorado regulates clean drinking water standards through water treatment. Pipes, pumps

Project title: 2024 Buena Vista Water Plan

Project purpose or justification: Water is life. We all love being around water and are so fortunate to live in such close proximity to the Arkansas River, Cottonwood Creek, and the myriad other source waters that bring the snow melt down off the majestic mountains all around us. Yet we cannot just stick a pump in the river and supply our homes and businesses with water! Water law dictates who can use how much water from where and when. The State of Colorado regulates clean drinking water standards through water treatment. Pipes, pumps, tanks, and other infrastructure bring the accessible water we do have into our buildings.

However, Buena Vista is growing very quickly. This growth not only puts an immense strain on our current water infrastructure, but it also uses more and more of our available water.

This is both a challenge AND an opportunity! The challenge is that we must have water. We cannot ignore it and we must plan to ensure we have enough to keep our community safe and vibrant. The opportunity is that we all get to jump in together to re-affirm our community goals, values, and direction.

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  • Water planning discussion

    by jteipel, over 4 years ago
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    This forum is a place where you can submit your thoughts, respond to others' thoughts, and carry on a discussion! Your comments here will be used to help direct future conversations on this topic - especially as we get into updating or redoing our Comprehensive Plan.

    Ground rules: Be kind. Be respectful. Be productive and work at positive framing (i.e. try not to use the word 'don't'!). 

    Here are some questions to get your juices flowing. Feel free to respond to all of them, one of them, or offer other thoughts on related questions. 

    How does water availability intersect with what we want BV to be? How do we, or should we, allow or incentivize certain types of housing over others (i.e. affordable, workforce, etc)? Do we want to grow endlessly? Or does our community need to stay to a certain size? What is that size? Should we limit growth by limiting new water taps? If so, how should that be done? If not, how to do deal with new water development while still trying to maintain a certain size of community?

    This forum is a place where you can submit your thoughts, respond to others' thoughts, and carry on a discussion! Your comments here will be used to help direct future conversations on this topic - especially as we get into updating or redoing our Comprehensive Plan.

    Ground rules: Be kind. Be respectful. Be productive and work at positive framing (i.e. try not to use the word 'don't'!). 

    Here are some questions to get your juices flowing. Feel free to respond to all of them, one of them, or offer other thoughts on related questions. 

    How does water availability intersect with what we want BV to be? How do we, or should we, allow or incentivize certain types of housing over others (i.e. affordable, workforce, etc)? Do we want to grow endlessly? Or does our community need to stay to a certain size? What is that size? Should we limit growth by limiting new water taps? If so, how should that be done? If not, how to do deal with new water development while still trying to maintain a certain size of community?

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