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Thornton plots another pipeline route for its Poudre River water. Will Larimer County plug up its plans?

Colorado’s sixth-largest city needs a land use permit to finish key part of 70-mile pipe

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Segments of Thornton’s 70-mile water pipe wait to be buried in Windsor in November 2020. The city is still trying to obtain a permit to lay pipe across Larimer County to carry shares of water it owns in the Cache La Poudre River to its residents. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)
DENVER, CO - OCTOBER 2:  Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio.  (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
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After a half-decade struggle by Thornton to claim thousands of acre-feet of water a year from the Cache La Poudre River near Fort Collins, the north Denver suburb is starting over with a new water pipe route that officials hope faces less resistance.
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