Northern Colorado dam opponents buoyed by still more federal delays

Opponents of proposed dams and reservoirs on the Poudre River along Colorado’s northern Front Range on Monday celebrated more federal permitting delays for the Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP), Halligan and Seaman water projects. But U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner, a Republican who represents the area in Congress, continues to rally business interests.

Environmental threats mar proposed Poudre River diversion project

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

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

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…