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Jeff Hurd: “We also need to work hard to get rid of the invasive…”

Featuring: Jeff Hurd, Republican | U.S. House Colorado, District 3

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Jeff Hurd and Adam Frisch debate in Pueblo

Published | Video Starts at 17:49

That are the National Environmental Protection act or Policies act, sorry. That's preventing high altitude distributed storage from being constructed in Colorado. We also need to work hard to get rid of the invasive species, the so called phreatophytes, the russian olive and the tamarisk. that are sucking up all the water from our district if we get rid of those invasive species. And that is probably one of the best water projects that we could have. (17:49–17:56)

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Asserts the need to remove invasive species to conserve water resources.

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