Colorado River–at the edge of a cliff?

Posted by Randy Scholfield on February 8th, 2010 in Conservation

Developer Aaron Million wants to build a 560-mile pipeline to deliver Colorado River basin water from the Flaming Gorge of Utah to the Front Range–but with some studies estimating the Colorado River nearly tapped out, will there be any extra water to take?  “That’s the center of our concern,” says Chris Treese of the Colorado River Water Conservation District. “How do we develop whatever’s left, or do we rush headlong into pursuing and approving very large projects that race us off the edge of the cliff before we know how close we are with regard to the Colorado River Compact? You don’t want to ever be in a deficit position. The Million project is perhaps taking us over the edge of that cliff.”