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

The C-BT Project con-
sists of 12 reservoirs,
six power plants, three
pumping plants, 95
miles of associated
canals and waterways,
35 miles of under-
ground tunnels and
siphons and the neces-
sary control and mea-
surement facilities. The
13.1-mile Alva B.
Adams Tunnel carries
the collected water
under the Continental
Divide to the Eastern
Slope. After exiting the
tunnel the water is
directed through five
power plants construct-
ed by the U.S. Bureau
of Reclamation (USBR)
as it falls one-half mile
in elevation to the east-
ern plains. The sale of
the hydroelectric power
generated by these
plants helps to repay
the federal govern-
ment's cost of con-
structing, operating and
maintaining the C-BT
Project.
Subdistrict Formation
ormation of the
I Northern Colorado
Water Conservancy
District's Municipal
Subdistrict (Subdistrict)
required submitting
petitions to the District
Court in Greeley. The
signatures of at least
5 percent of the
landowners within each
of the six cities and 25
percent of the owners
of irrigated land within
the proposed bound-
aries had to be
obtained before the
petitions could be con-
sidered by the court. ?
The Windy Gap Plant as a
sudden storm approaches
from the northwest
WINDY GAP PROJECT 5