FCWD in the News

Here are the many news articles and interviews sharing information about the Fountain Creek watershed and the Fountain Creek Watershed District.

News

• "Creek Week: Restoring and Protecting Our Watershed," Palmer Land Conservancy Blogpost, 2024 
• "Creek Week Cleanup collected over 150 TONS of trash, over the last ten years in Southern Colorado", KKTV, Oct 1, 2024
• "Creek Week - Working for water quality in the Pikes Peak Region", KOAA News5, Sep 26, 2024
• "The largest watershed-wide cleanup event in Colorado", FOX21 News, Sep 5, 2024
• "City seeing an uptick in illegal dumping in Colorado Springs waterways, community clean-up projects to begin", KOAA News5, Aug 27, 2024
• "3 Rs Guide Fountain Creek", Pueblo Star Journal, Jul 17, 2024
• "Next Liquid Lecture to feature wacky weather, local beer and Matt Meister," FOX21, Mar 20, 2024
• "Fountain Creek Watershed District offering a sale on Rain Barrels through a new program", KRDO, Mar 11, 2024
• "Erosion control plan for closed section of Southmoor Dr in Fountain revealed Wednesday", KRDO, Feb 14, 2024
• "Two Pueblo-area conservation projects are getting an influx of cash funding", The Pueblo Chieftain, Dec 26, 2023
• "South Colorado breweries dive in for conservation", Thirst Colorado, Dec 1, 2023
• Creek Week 2023 news and information
• Artist Lauren Rosenthal McManus, Headwaters to Heartland, Nov 4, 2022 – Feb 18, 2023.  For her show at GOCA Downtown, she will make a drawing of the Fountain Creek watershed, while also exhibiting prints from her artist book her piece Political / Hydrological: A Watershed Remapping of the Contiguous United States, a folio that re-envisions the geo-political boundaries of each of our country’s lower 48 states by way of their primary watersheds.
• “Fountain Creek cleanup unveils truckloads of trash…”, Pueblo Chieftain, Oct 23, 2022
• “Pueblo to conduct largest cleanup of Fountain Creek area in recent years”, Pueblo Chieftain, Oct 14, 2022
• “Walking a Tightrope”, CSIndy, February 2 – 8, 2022
• “Storm Drain Art Project aims to keep Colorado Springs waterways”, KRDO, Aug 13, 2021
• “El Paso County Regional Water Managers Propose a $134 Million Project To Create A More Renewable Water Supply”, CPR, Aug 12, 2021
• “New water ‘loop’ proposal would change the water supply in El Paso County”, KRDO, Aug 11, 2021
• “Clean water challenge underway”, CSIndy, Aug 11, 2021
• “Utilities looks to recycle water from sewage plants for domestic use”, CSIndy, Aug 11, 2021
• “‘Loop’ holds promise of sustainable water supply for El Paso County”, The Colorado Springs Gazette, Aug 11, 2021
• “Proposed water project could resolve quest for sustainble supply in El Paso County, officials say”, The Gazette, Aug 10, 2021
• “Diminishing Denver basin groundwater in El Paso County…”, The Gazette, Aug 10, 2021
• “El Paso County talks regional water project Aug 10”, Fox21News, Aug 9, 2021
• “Drinking wastewater? It’s an option…”, CSIndy, Aug 5, 2021
• “EPA lawsuit settlement and drainage system work mean higher stormwater fees”, CSIndy, Feb 24, 2021
• “Colorado Springs stormwater fee increases approved”, The Gazette, Feb 23, 2021
• “The future of Fountain Creek in Colorado Springs”, FOX21News, Feb 3, 2021
• “Kayaking down Fountain Creek…”, The Gazette, Feb 1, 2021
• “Fountain Creek project eyes vision for seven miles through COS”, CSIndy, Jan 27, 2021
• “Fountain Creek plan approved to benefit, Pueblo, Arkansas River Valley”, Pueblo Chieftain, Jan 12, 2021
• “Colorado Springs faces $2 million fine…”, KRDO, Nov 7, 2020
• “Colorado Springs agrees to storm water plan benefitting Fountain Creek”, EPCAN, Nov 4, 2020
• “Hart explains Fountain Creek protection processes”, Pueblo Chieftain, Nov 1, 2020
• “What’s next in Fountain Creek clean water case”, Pueblo Chieftain, Oct 31, 2020
• “Health official sees good news for Fountain Creek, Arkansas River”, Pueblo Chieftain, Oct 31, 2020
• “Fountain Creek suit breakthrough made”, Pueblo Chieftain, Oct 30, 2020
• “Major breakthrough reached in Fountain Creek case to settle clean water lawsuit”, Pueblo Chieftain, Oct 30, 2020
• “City reaches agreement to settle EPA lawsuit…”, CSIndy, Oct 26, 2020
• “Litter Letter project turns trash into public art”, KOAA, Oct 3, 2020
• “Proactive project aims to help when it floods”, KOAA, Sep 28, 2020
• “Creek Week volunteer cleanup event starts for 7th year…”, KRDO, Sep 25, 2020
• “Federal Judge balks at Fountain Creek case delay”, Pueblo Chieftain, Aug 23, 2020
• “Colorado Springs sees benefits from stormwater improvements”, KOAA, Jul 16, 2020
• “City of Fountain to close Southmoor Dr on April 15th for safety reasons”, KOAA, Apr 9, 2020
• “Creek’s eroding banks pose threat…”, The Gazette, Apr 8, 2020
• “Federal court puts Fountain lawsuit on hold“, Pueblo Chieftain, Feb 15, 2020
• “Sesqicentennial: 1965 flood was devastating to Pueblo”, Pueblo Chieftain, Feb 15, 2020
• “Air Force Academy to city: Don’t foist your stormwater problems on the Academy,” CSIndy, Jan 8, 2020
• “Annual Fountain Creek fish count underway”, KOAA, Sep 24, 2019
• “City and EPA say they’re working on “a global settlement” to end the stormwater lawsuit”, CSIndy, Aug 20, 2019
• “Design underway for open space at former Fountain mobile home park”, KRDO, Aug 19, 2019
• “Progress reported on Fountain Creek lawsuit negotiations”, Pueblo Chieftain, Jul 30, 2019
• “Mobile home park demolished”, CSIndy, May 29, 2019
• “Riverside Mobile Home Park demolished in Fountain”, KOAA, May 22, 2019
• "Introducing the Fountain Creek Brewshed Alliance", Focus on the Beer, June 7, 2017