UWP rubber ducky capture crew 2025

2025 Uncompaghre Rubber Ducky Winners


The Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership (UWP) released 290 yellow duckies into the Uncompahgre River at Rollans Park at 5 p.m. on July 24, 2025, and our team of volunteers helped capture all of them before they…

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USGS gage graph of Uncompahgre River flows from May 1 to July 20 2025

2025 Uncompahgre River Peak Flow above Ridgway Reservoir recorded on June 3


Winners of Uncompahgre River Classic peak flow prediction contest announced As the flow in the Uncompahgre River has hovered between lows of 150 and 250 cubic feet per second (cfs) during July, the Uncompahgre Watershed…

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Line of ducks

Fun with the Uncompahgre Rubber Ducky Race


The staff of the Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership (UWP) has grown in 2025! We hope you had a chance to meet Volunteer Coordinator Claire Barker and Hydrologist Virginia Weiskopf at the Ridgway RiverFest at the end of June….

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2025 Ridgway RiverFest poster

New shuttle services at the Ridgway RiverFest in 2025


The annual Ridgway RiverFest is known for its river races including the Junk of the Unc homemade watercraft competition.  Besides the talented Ouray Mountain Rescue Team kayakers, who accompany the racers and show off their…

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