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The environment desk at Aspen Public Radio covers issues in the Roaring Fork Valley and throughout the state of Colorado including water use and quality, impact of recreation, population growth and oil and gas development. APR’s Environment Reporter is Elizabeth Stewart-Severy.

Updates to stormwater treatment at Prockter Open Space

Prockter Open Space will be getting some updates this fall, and the City of Aspen is looking for public input today.

 

As part of ongoing efforts to treat stormwater before it enters the Roaring Fork River, the City of Aspen is planning the final steps in updating a treatment site at Prockter Open Space, near Herron Park.

 

This area will treat stormwater from the Smuggler-Hunter drainage basin, which includes a superfund site.

 

At a public open house at 4 p.m. today at Herron Park, the city’s engineering department will showcase plans for a constructed wetland. The design is intended to minimize the amount of sediment that reaches the Roaring Fork River.

 

Aspen native Elizabeth Stewart-Severy is excited to be making a return to both the Red Brick, where she attended kindergarten, and the field of journalism. She has spent her entire life playing in the mountains and rivers around Aspen, and is thrilled to be reporting about all things environmental in this special place. She attended the University of Colorado with a Boettcher Scholarship, and graduated as the top student from the School of Journalism in 2006. Her lifelong love of hockey lead to a stint working for the Colorado Avalanche, and she still plays in local leagues and coaches the Aspen Junior Hockey U-19 girls.
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