How we raise money to fight Moffat4th Annual Rocky Mountain River Celebration with John Fielder, March 10th
The 4th Annual Rocky Mountain River Celebration is a non-profit sponsored annual event hosted in solidarity with the International Day of Action for Rivers. It will take place on Thursday March 10 at the historic Dickens Opera House in Longmont, CO (doors at 6:30, show at 7pm; tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door).
Our 2016 River Celebration will feature a keynote multi-media performance on the free-flowing Yampa River by illustrious Colorado photographer John Fielder. Also included in the lineup are the hilarious Timmy O’Neill as emcee, the enchanting Gabrielle Louise for musical entertainment, a handful of award-winning river-centric short films, and several speakers on western water issues. Also, this year we will have a seriously big-ticket river item up for raffle for those who donate to the cause.
All proceeds and fundraising from the event will go toward the Boulder County & Colorado River Legal Defense Fund – currently accruing funds for legal action to stop Denver Water’s proposed Moffat/Gross project (which would be the largest construction project in Boulder County history and drain the Fraser River if allowed to proceed). This is always a fun event and we are excited to be merging the arts and entertainment with the important cause of preserving our critical headwaters of the mighty Colorado River.
For the past decade, Denver Water, the utility supplying water to Denver and the surrounding area (not including Boulder County), has been planning a massive expansion of Gross Reservoir just west of Boulder. This dam and reservoir expansion would be the largest construction project in Boulder County history. Sixty percent of the water from the Fraser River, a tributary of the highly endangered Colorado River, is already diverted beneath the Continental Divide to the Front Range for the existing Gross Reservoir. Yet Denver Water is proposing to take more.
From the beginning, TEG (The Environmental Group) has been working to bring attention to and stop this environmentally damaging and unnecessary project. The more cost effective and long term solution to water shortage is not by taking more from the headwaters of the dwindling Colorado River, but through the very realistic and viable option of water conservation.
In order to go through with this unnecessary project, Denver Water must be granted a series of federal and state permits, and this is where TEG is currently focusing our efforts. In partnership with Save the Colorado, another non-profit organization, TEG is preparing to challenge the issuing of the first federal permit for the project in court this coming year. With sufficient financial support to pay the attorneys, TEG stands a good chance of stopping this project in court. And that’s where our annual Rocky Mountain River Celebration fundraising event comes in…
Help Stop Gross Dam Expansion by Attending TEG’s 4th Annual Rocky Mountain River Celebration