9527

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9527
• Author: Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District.
• Title: The Windy Gap Project.
• USFW Year: no dat
• USFW - Doc Type: Loveland, CO.
• Copyright Material: NO

m- MIICIPAL SUBDISTRICT
The bypass helps provide
for a 90 cfs minimum flow
below Windy Gap for fish
in the Colorado River
A fter studying growth
rates and water sup-
ply demand projections,
the six Front Range
cities concluded that it
would be necessary to
develop a water supply
project specifically to
meet municipal needs.
The cities eventually
settled on the concept
that would lead to the
development of the
Windy Gap transmoun-
tain diversion project to
meet those needs. In
1969 the six cities real-
ized that the amount of
work and expertise nec-
essary to build the
Windy Gap Project
required a stronger
organization than they
could provide indepen-
dently. They subse-
quently petitioned for
the formation of a
municipal subdistrict
within the Northern
Colorado Water
Conservancy District
(NCWCD).
Northern
Colorado Water
Conservancy District
The NCWCD was
established in 1937.
Its original charge was
to develop and main-
tain the C-BT Project
and to distribute the
supplemental water
supply provided by the
Project to water users
within the seven-county
District service area in
northeastern Colorado.
The C-BT Project diverts
and stores runoff from
the headwaters of the
Colorado River west of
the Continental Divide
and delivers it to the
water users of the
District east of the
Rocky Mountains as a
supplemental water
supply for agricultural,
municipal, domestic,
industrial and recre-
ational purposes.
4 WINDY GAP PROJECT