Carl Young and his wife moved to Pagosa Lakes from Phoenix in 2020. They have been Pagosa Area Water and Sewer District ratepayers since that time.
Carl works remotely as an IT project manager, and his wife Laurah does volunteer work. Carl has a son who lives in Phoenix. They have a cat and two dogs.
He is currently engaged as a project consultant to an environmental testing company that measures air quality,
Carl’s Water Story
After his father was killed in a farming accident, Carl and his mother continued to live on the farm in south-central Kansas.
One day after school his mother asked Carl to turn on the faucet in the kitchen sink.
Out came a pressurized stream of sand mixed with water. What happened?
Our neighbors had drilled irrigation wells and drained the aquifer supplying our house.
At that moment Carl became aware that the surrounding environment was more important than he had realized. He became a strong advocate of water resource management in that moment and has continued to work to protect important watersheds.
The story has a relatively happy end. Our neighbors, including the irrigators, helped drill a new house well.
In the meantime, we borrowed two hand pumps and pulled water out of two stock wells.
Carl hopes to never have to hand pump water again.