Colorado Water
Here's Part Three of the Rocky's series on the impact of Front Range water diversions on mountain counties [October 5, 2004, "The Last Drop: Summit County Siphoning the Summit"]. From the article, "Many who use Dillon (Reservoir) each weekend don't yet realize that Denver Water will begin taking much larger gulps from its largest storage pond, raising and lowering its levels dramatically. Nor do many know that the utility plans to increase by 77 percent the amount of water it diverts from the Blue River, the lifeline for the reservoir and Summit County. That means about half of the Blue River's crisp, clear native flows will come to the Front Range in the next 25 years, up from about 25 percent now, according to the Northwest Colorado Council of Governments. Because of this and Summit's spectacular growth, unless more water is stored for local water users, the county known as Colorado's playground will end up significantly drier. At times, the county could run short of water for snowmaking, golf courses and trout fisheries, according to a 2003 study known as the Upper Colorado River Project."
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