LOVELAND, Colo.—Farmers and city dwellers across the Front Range who use water from the Colorado-Big Thompson diversion project will get to use up to 60 percent of the system’s capacity this year.
The Reporter-Herald reports ( ) board members of Northern Water, the agency that sells the water from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation project, made their decision Friday after considering input from farmers and municipal water suppliers. The agency set the quota at 50 percent last fall but increased it in part because of early April snowstorms in the mountains.
The C-BT system takes water from the upper Colorado River Basin under the Continental Divide through a tunnel to fill reservoirs serving Front Range cities and farms and ranches on the plains. In a good year, the system provides enough water for more than 600,000 households.
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Information from: Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald,
