ALAMOSA, Colo.—A federal trial to settle a dispute over water rights for the aquifer under the Great Sand Dunes begins Wednesday. The Department of Justice claims it owns the rights to enough of ...

It’s made up of four principal aquifers, the Dawson, Denver, Arapahoe and Laramie-Fox Hills, with an overlying alluvial aquifer. The aquifer contains more than 200 million acre-feet of water ...

It looks kind of like concrete. It's the topmost of the four bedrock aquifers that are the Denver Basin.” The Cherokee Metropolitan District serves nearly 18,000 customers in and around Cimarron ...

The Upper Black Squirrel basin is known as an alluvial aquifer, much shallower than the deep bedrock of the Denver Basin. Officials believe it is mostly self-contained, meaning not much water will ...