Yampa River Freshwater Decarbonization
Gray or Green Infrastructure
The Yampa River in northwest Colorado is one of the few free-flowing rivers in the western United States and a major tributary of the Colorado River. Virridy is monitoring water quality and applying our patent data-science technologies along a 40 mile stretch of the river, measuring how the organic loading in the river is impacted by agriculture, ranches, towns and wastewater utilities.
Virridy is working with several utilities along this stretch of river to identify how nature-based watershed restoration projects could improve river water quality, and avoid the construction of expensive, greenhouse gas emitting wastewater treatment plant upgrades, while generating carbon credits to subsidize the watershed solutions.