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GLENWOOD SPRINGS – — Garfield County commissioners are on record opposing a plan to divert 240,000 acre-feet of Western Slope water annually from Wyoming’s Flaming Gorge Reservoir to Colorado’s Front Range.
However, the decision to oppose the proposed 560-mile-long Flaming Gorge pipeline was not a unanimous one. The Garfield Board of County Commissioners voted 2-1 Monday to take the position against the controversial project.
Commissioner Tom Jankovsky said that, although philosophically opposed to Front Range water diversions, it’s too early in the process for the county to be taking a position on the controversial project.
“I do not like West Slope water going to East Slope,” Jankovsky said. “But I do feel this is premature.”
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