Despite EPA support, conservation out of New Fork Lake options
As the U.S. Forest Service studies a Wyoming plan for irrigators to draw down a Sublette recreation destination by 22 feet, it likely won’t weigh water-saving alternatives.
New Fork Lake
$29 M eyed for city water, ranchers, wilderness cloud seeding
Omnibus water bills may help municipalities, advance New Fork Lake dam project and resolve a flap over Gillette water project that rural residents believe disrupted their domestic wells.
Study: Drain New Fork Lake 7 feet for irrigation
$12.7 million plan would allow 94 irrigators to raise 530 more cows in the drainage. Conservation alternatives have not been completely weighed.
Four dam projects would cost $88M
Wyoming lawmakers will consider funding major dam projects that advance Gov. Matt Mead’s plan to construct 10 water storage projects in a decade.
State moves on New Fork Lake dam
Wyoming could advance plans for a bigger dam at New Fork Lake, management of federal lands, and a lease that would enable development in sage grouse habitat.
