Decades of inaction have left a federal water system in southwest Colorado in shambles. Will the state step in to help? ...Middle East

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Decades of inaction have left a federal water system in southwest Colorado in shambles. Will the state step in to help?
LA PLATA COUNTY — For Jeff Richmond, the starkest example of being tied to a dilapidated federal water delivery system was the year he faced a water user’s nightmare: His water was cut off for more than a month in the middle of the growing season because of an upstream system failure.  For Clifton Baker, a former Southern Ute rancher, it was never being sure if he’d get his water in time to grow hay for his cattle, his sole source of income. Marikay Shellman recalled being a young mother and having to go out with neighbors to clean debris from earthen irrigation ditches so she could get her irrigation water. These water users and hundreds more like them in southwestern Colorado dra

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