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Weekly water roundup: Watering Front Range population growth, Peru Creek Basin cleanup
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Short takes from the week in Colorado water:
How will we water Front Range population growth?
Watering unbridled population growth was on the minds of Colorado's movers and shakers recently as the news broke that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has come down against Aaron Million's proposed Flaming Gorge pipeline -- dubbed the Regional Watershed Supply Project by the Corps of Engineers.
The pipeline will take water from the Green River and Flaming Gorge Reservoir and terminate along Colorado's Eastern Plains, perhaps as far south as Pueblo.
There is a group of water providers championing a competing version of the pipeline. They are touting public ownership and operation while Million plans to fund the building of his transmountain water project privately.
Peru Creek Basin cleanup
According to a report this week in the Summit Daily News the cleanup of the Peru Creek Basin is going to be much more expensive than originally hoped -- perhaps as much as $20 million. The acid mine waste flowing from the old mines at the headwaters of Peru Creek harm aquatic life down to and beyond the confluence with the Snake River.
Mount Princeton Geothermal LLC
The company is proposing a 10 megawatt geothermal electric generation plant for the Upper Arkansas Valley. The plant could provide most of the power required in the valley.
Geothermal has advantages over fellow renewables solar and wind in that availability is not variable.
Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska fail to settle Republican River dispute
The whole thing is now headed for arbitration as both Nebraska and Kansas voted down Colorado's proposed compliance pipeline. The pipeline would have delivered Colorado's shares to the river at the Nebraska border. The three sides could not agree on the accounting for the operation.
Kansas is being shorted by Nebraska and Colorado.
Trout Unlimited angling for winter flow storage in Gross Reservoir
Denver Water is hoping to score a permit to enlarge raise Gross Dam from 340 feet to approximately 465 feet increasing reservoir storage by 114,000 acre-feet. Colorado Trout Unlimited is trying to get 5,000 acre feet of storage in the enlargement set aside for winter streamflows in South Boulder Creek
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