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Ditch Hazards Awareness & Safety A Meeting and Participatory Workshop |
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Sunday, 19 April 2009 |
When: Friday, April 24, 2009 9 a.m. to 12 noon
Where: Four Mile Community Club Building Corner of East Main & Steinmeier Cañon City, Colorado
Cost: Free
Irrigation ditches have been instrumental in the development of Colorado. For more than 100 years urbanization occurred along ditches and their riparian corridors. They are valuable environmental and aesthetic assets for the community, in addition to their historic importance for local agriculture. For ditch companies, urban growth has produced unforeseen consequences. Questions surround liability involved with open water in a populated environment. Safety issues along the ditch are of utmost concern to everyone.
Fremont County ditch companies will hold a public educational workshop in Cañon City focused on safety issues and drowning prevention along and in the service areas of ditches.
The morning workshop includes a brief contextual statement, a session on the legal aspects of safety, and a participatory workshop to create proactive steps to prevent mishaps and drowning. Representatives from the local ditch companies, and Fremont County will be present to work with people to create plans. Representatives from other ditch and reservoir companies from all over Colorado are encouraged to attend so that they will be able to adopt similar educational workshops for their respective ditch companies.
This project is a collaborative effort with Fremont County ditch companies and DARCA. DARCA can help set up a Ditch Hazards Awareness & Safety Meeting for your ditch company. Please contact DARCA at (970) 412-1960 for details. Contact Mannie Colon at (719) 275-6359.
The Ditch Hazards Awareness & Safety Meeting is sponsored by: the Costilla County Conservancy District, Hix Insurance Associates, Inc. and the Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District.
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