The call for senior water rights on the main stem of the Yampa River was released at 6 p.m. Monday after three days of water curtailment for junior water rights holders.<\/p>\n
The main stem of the river went \u201con call\u201d Friday afternoon \u2013 for the fourth time in history \u2013 as another indicator of the current dry conditions in Northwest Colorado.<\/p>\n
\u201cSenior water rights are not getting enough water to their headgates during this dry year,\u201d according to a Friday email from officials at the Colorado Department of Water Resources office in Steamboat Springs. \u201cWater rights that are junior to May 30, 1972, will need to be curtailed.\u201d<\/p>\n
The state office places a call on a stream or river when senior water rights owners do not receive the amount of water for which they have a legal right. During a call, some water users must reduce or stop their use in order to send enough water downstream to fulfill the older water rights.<\/p>\n
The main stem of the Yampa River previously went on call during three other dry years including Sept. 4-26 in 2018, Aug. 25-Sept. 3 in 2020 and July 30-Aug. 2 in 2021, according to the state office. This year\u2019s call on the main stem took place at the earliest time in the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The call for senior water rights on the main stem of the Yampa River was released at 6…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-47723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}