Photos: Drought Affecting Front Range Communities
Button Rock Preserve
LYONS, CO - SEPTEMBER 22: A wildlife photographer walks across the dam at the East edge of Ralph Price Reservoir on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, in Lyons, Colo. (Timothy Hurst/Staff Photographer)
Button Rock Preserve
LYONS, CO - SEPTEMBER 22: A small boat stops in the middle of Ralph Price Reservoir on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, in Lyons, Colo. (Timothy Hurst/Staff Photographer)
Button Rock Preserve
LYONS, CO - SEPTEMBER 22: Water from Ralph Price Reservoir flows out of the control house and into the North St. Vrain Creek on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, in Lyons, Colo. (Timothy Hurst/Staff Photographer)
Button Rock Preserve
LYONS, CO - SEPTEMBER 22: Water from Ralph Price Reservoir flows out of the control house and into the North St. Vrain Creek on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, in Lyons, Colo. (Timothy Hurst/Staff Photographer)
Button Rock Preserve
LYONS, CO - SEPTEMBER 22: Rachael Ragland sets down her nephew Landon Sear, 1, while son Graham McKee, 4, looks for rocks to toss into water from Ralph Price Reservoir erupting from the control house and into the North St. Vrain Creek on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, in Lyons, Colo. (Timothy Hurst/Staff Photographer)
Button Rock Preserve
LYONS, CO - SEPTEMBER 22: Graham McKee, 4, looks for rocks while his mother Rachael Ragland sits with her nephew Landon Sear, 1, as water from Ralph Price Reservoir erupts from the control house and into the North St. Vrain Creek on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, in Lyons, Colo. (Timothy Hurst/Staff Photographer)
Button Rock Preserve
LYONS, CO - SEPTEMBER 22: Water from Ralph Price Reservoir cascades down a rock face in the North St. Vrain Creek on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, in Lyons, Colo. (Timothy Hurst/Staff Photographer)
McIntosh Lake
LONGMONT, CO - SEPTEMBER 23: Gunbarrel resident Maureen Bjerke walks on the shore to launch her paddle board at McIntosh Lake on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Longmont, Colo. (Timothy Hurst/Staff Photographer)
McIntosh Lake
LONGMONT, CO - SEPTEMBER 23: Gunbarrel resident Maureen Bjerke walks out into the water to launch her paddle board at McIntosh Lake on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Longmont, Colo. (Timothy Hurst/Staff Photographer)
McIntosh Lake
LONGMONT, CO - SEPTEMBER 23: A water shoe sits on dried and cracked mud at McIntosh Lake on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Longmont, Colo. (Timothy Hurst/Staff Photographer)
McIntosh Lake
LONGMONT, CO - SEPTEMBER 23: A pair of goggles sits on the dries and cracked mud on the beach at McIntosh Lake on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Longmont, Colo. (Timothy Hurst/Staff Photographer)
McIntosh Lake
LONGMONT, CO - SEPTEMBER 23: Dirt is washed away from below the concrete foundation of a bench at McIntosh Lake on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Longmont, Colo. (Timothy Hurst/Staff Photographer)
Watershed survey
LYONS, CO - SEPTEMBER 25: Left Hand Watershed Center executive director Jessie Olson, right, measures stones in the creek bed while watershed scientist Deb Hummel takes notes as the two conduct a watershed survey of a section of St. Vrain Creek on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Lyons, Colo. (Timothy Hurst/Staff Photographer)
Watershed survey
LYONS, CO - SEPTEMBER 25: Left Hand Watershed Center watershed scientist Deb Hummel looks at a group of caddisfly casings while she and executive director Jessie Olson, not pictured, conduct a watershed survey of a section of St. Vrain Creek on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Lyons, Colo. (Timothy Hurst/Staff Photographer)
Watershed survey
LYONS, CO - SEPTEMBER 25: Left Hand Watershed Center executive director Jessie Olson, right, measures the depth of a pool between two boulders while watershed scientist Deb Hummel hold a measuring tape between the two of them while conducting a watershed survey in St. Vrain Creek on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Lyons, Colo. (Timothy Hurst/Staff Photographer)
Watershed survey
LYONS, CO - SEPTEMBER 25: Left Hand Watershed Center watershed scientist Deb Hummel, right, takes notes while executive director Jessie Olson measures stones in the creek bed in St. Vrain Creek while conducting a watershed survey on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Lyons, Colo. (Timothy Hurst/Staff Photographer)
Watershed survey
LYONS, CO - SEPTEMBER 25: Left Hand Watershed Center executive director Jessie Olson plunges a measurement stick into the St. Vrain Creek to measure the depth while conducting a watershed survey with watershed scientist Deb Hummel, not pictured, on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Lyons, Colo. (Timothy Hurst/Staff Photographer)
Watershed survey
LYONS, CO - SEPTEMBER 25: Left Hand Watershed Center executive director Jessie Olson, left, measures the depth of a pool while watershed scientist Deb Hummel notes the depths in the St. Vrain Creek on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Lyons, Colo. (Timothy Hurst/Staff Photographer)