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Environmental threats mar proposed Poudre River diversion project

By | 06.20.08 | 9:08 am

The common shiner, a species of minnow, once called the Poudre River home. It has moved away.

Averaging between 2 and 4 inches long, the not-common-anymore shiners were part of the Poudre ecosystem and indeed were found along the river…

Water wars come to the suburbs

By | 06.19.08 | 9:17 am

The city of Lafayette has long known the thirst of a Colorado drought.

In 1977, a blisteringly dry summer forced city officials to sound sirens throughout the small city northwest of Denver, to signal residents to stop all non-critical water…

Heated Glade Reservoir debate shows many have something at stake

By | 06.18.08 | 8:49 am

It would be a water storage project of monster proportions, bigger than anything seen in Northern Colorado in decades.

Some are calling the $405 million plan imperative, while others classify it as a deathblow to the environment and a fragile…