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Aspen Journalism Vehicles and machinery sit outside the entrances to the marble galleries of the Pride of America Mine in January. Local governments and environmental groups want the quarry operators to undertake mitigation projects to compensate for moving a creek, which violated the Clean Water Act. Mike Stevens/EcoFlight Local governments and environmental groups don’t think a proposal submitted by a mining company goes far enough to restore the damage done when the company diverted a section of creek near Marble, and they are asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to hold a public hear...

Staff report The Roaring Fork Conservancy is warning people not to be in and immediately adjacent to the Roaring Fork River in coming days because of a possible ice jam break with warming temperatures. The nonprofit organization dedicated to all things water-related in the Roaring Fork watershed asked the National Weather Service and Pitkin County Emergency Management to issue an advisory about a possible ice jam break between Friday evening and Tuesday, according to Christina Medved, the conservancy’s director of community outreach. Ice builds up on the river during cold stretches. When te...