Directors of San Juan Water Conservancy District will hold a Work Session at 4 pm on Tuesday, March 26, at 46 Eaton Drive Suite 5. The purpose of the public, in person, Work Session is to research and plan next steps in filming of three water films. Christi Bode of Moxiecran Media will meet with directors. There is no agenda and no opportunity for public comment.
Directors of San Juan Water Conservancy District will participate in Southwestern Water Conservation District’s Annual Seminar from 8 am to 4:30 pm at Sky Ute Casino in Ignacio, Colorado.
San Juan Water Conservancy District will hold a Special Meeting at 4 pm on Monday, March 25. The meeting is in person at 46 Eaton Drive Suite 5. SJWCD Directors will consider inclusion and deadlines in federal funding opportunities.
San Juan Water Conservancy District follows relevant scientific studies and considers seriously data-driven reports, especially those generated in Colorado. SJWCD Directors use fact-based information to plan for the future of water in the Upper San Juan River drainage and Archuleta County.
Link here to read the Executive Summary of the most recent CSU Climate Change report. 2024 Climate Assessment Report Executive Summary
Pagosa Weather organizes a small army of local citizen scientists who measure and report Snow Water Equivalents, SWE. Volunteers are trained in how to measure accumulated snow. According to the National Weather Service (NWS), SWE means the depth of water that would cover the ground if the snow cover was in a liquid state.
Methods of measuring snow here in San Juan Water Conservancy District include Snowtography at Jackson Mountain, Snow Telemetry (SnoTel) at Wolf Creek Pass, and Pagosa Weather’s measuring SWE all over Archuleta County.
Arleen and Shawn Prochazka currently lead Pagosa Weather, a nonprofit organized in 2016. They are NWS Weather Ready Nation Ambassadors, Pagosans who are United States Air Force veterans and nationally recognized meteorologists. Arleen leads the citizen scientists and the Pagosa Weather Board of Directors. Volunteers are trained in how to be consistent and accurate in measuring snow depth and also in providing valuable rain, hail, and snow data to CoCoRaHS. Pagosa Weather is the official coordinator of the Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow Network, or CoCoRaHS.
The Pagosa Weather website contains a plethora of information, all related to water in the San Juan Water Conservancy District. Everything from forecasts to monthly precipitation summaries to current webcams can be found at www.pagosaweather.org. Contact them to become a citizen scientist providing relevant data to SJWCD’s mission.
San Juan Water Conservancy District has scheduled a Work Session at 11 am on Friday, March 1. The public Work Session is at 46 Eaton Drive Suite 5. The purpose of the in-person Work Session is to research and plan with Christi Bode of Moxiecran Media. There is no agenda and no actions will be taken. There is no opportunity for public comment.
SJWCD Consultant, Josh Kurz, presents about Pagosa Springs’ water supply at the Archuleta Extension Building on Tuesday, April 9 at 6pm. This public presentation is the sixth SJWCD has sponsored in order to educate the community about where our municipal water comes from, but also all water uses in the upper San Juan River watershed. Hope to see you there!
2024 Strategic Objectives
The Directors of San Juan Water Conservancy District adopted three 2024 Strategic Objectives, based on the 2021 Strategic Plan. Updated objectives flow from progress achieved in 2023. Action goals are dynamic and revised when needed at SJWCD Work Sessions and Meetings.
Each Director agreed to participate in at least one Objective, but all are encouraged to attend and provide input in any Work Session of interest. Public Work Sessions are for purposes of sharing information and moving research forward. There are not opportunities for public comments or set agendas at a Work Session. Actions may only be approved by the full board at monthly Special or Regular Meetings.
The three SJWCD Strategic Objectives for 2024 are:
Objective One
Advance the San Juan River Headwaters Project as one resource for meeting agricultural, municipal, environmental, and recreational water needs of the SJWCD community.
Objective Two
Identify complementary and supplemental uses for the Running Iron Ranch property and initiate programs with suitable partners to develop the particular uses. Refer to the Growing Water Smart goals established in 2021 to inform the use cases.
Objective Three
Educate the SJWCD community about water resource issues facing the Upper San Juan River Basin. Define the public position on the construction of a reservoir.