Flood damage in the SLV, Colorado’s carbon sequestration ambitions, coffin racing in Manitou Springs

The impacts from last weekend’s slow moving storm keep spreading through southern Colorado. We meet a business owner in one tiny community who’s still figuring out what he lost, and hear how water company employees known as ‘ditch riders’ helped keep things from being even worse. Then, Colorado recently got federal permission to start permitting carbon sequestration projects. But the technology comes with a lot of controversy. And in Manitou Springs last weekend, the 32nd Emma Crawford Coffin Races helped keep things weird.

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Read more on the stories in today’s show:

CPR’s Tony Gorman reports on the latest with the flooding in southwestern Colorado

CPR’s Jinny Kim on the debate over carbon capture and sequestration

KRCC’s Jess Hazel on the history of the Emma Crawford Coffin Races (archive)

Owen Woods from the Alamosa Citizen on flooding in southern Colorado

This episode of Colorado Today is hosted by Arlo Pérez Esquivel and Jackie Sedley. It’s edited and produced by Mateo Schimpf, Arlo Pérez Esquivel, Jackie Sedley and Michael Hughes. The executive producer is Megan Verlee. Theme music by Pedro Lumbraño.