The rift between Pueblo and Colorado Springs is the subject of this editorial from the Pueblo Chieftain. From the opinion piece, "Colorado Springs Utilities officials are engaged in propaganda, trying to convince Pueblo residents that we're in this thing together - this thing of fixing the degradation of Fountain Creek.
"Why didn't they invite us to 'work together' in the 1980s and '90s while they hatched plans to take more water out of the Arkansas Valley to fuel population growth - and prosperity - in Colorado Springs?
"They apparently didn't have time for us then.
"They didn't need our cooperation in 1986 when they got a court decree from then-Water Judge John Tracey to exchange agricultural water rights Colorado Springs had acquired in the Colorado Canal for much better quality water in upstream reservoirs, such as Lake Pueblo.
"That terrible ruling allows Colorado Springs to use good water and send volumes and volumes of the effluent back down the Fountain.
"They didn't ask us when they decided that Pueblo Dam would be the preferred site for taking 78 million gallons of water a day into the proposed new Southern Delivery System pipeline to Colorado Springs. SDS currently is under environmental review by the federal government."
Category: Colorado Water
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