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<br />UNDUP <br /> <br />The Denver Post Sunday. Aug, 28, 1983 <br /> <br /> <br />KayoS.ch...st1yder <br />~ Matt Johnson, pumphouse conslruc!ion manager, right, details Windy Gap project to Longmont ollicials. <br />fr <br />ld <br />f. <br />, <br />" <br /> <br />Surplus Windy Gap Water <br />For Sale to Municipalities <br /> <br />BVKAYEBACH~5NYOER <br />Spccial10 lhoOe...ve'Po.l <br /> <br />LONG MONT - The Northern Colo- <br />rado Water Conservancy District is <br />wooing water-llUngry cities in" <br />southeastern Boulder County, in hopes <br />ofmarketingsurpluswateranUcipated <br />in 1985 from the Windy Gap Project. <br />Windy Gap is a $84.3 mlllion ," <br />transmoulltainwaterdlvQrsionproject <br />financed by five F..astern Slope ciUes. <br />andthePlatteRivcrPowerAuthority. <br />LarrYSimpson;NorthernWaterlJls- <br />trict general rn8nager, con!irml.!{\ that <br />\ his board has mad(' overtures to offi. <br />cials of Broomfield! Lafayette Ilnd <br />Louisville. <br />Those cities currenlly areoutsldn the <br />district and parUcipaling in the Denvnr <br />'WaterBoard'senviTonmnntalleaslbili. <br />ty study of a proposed $240 lllruion to <br />$200 million, 8/iO,OOO.aerc.fonl storago <br />reservoir,gcneralJYdescrlbedllS_the <br />Two Forks project on lhe South Platte <br />Rlversouthwest of Denver. . <br />Simpson discussed the marketing <br />plan last week with Boulder County and <br />municipalorrlcials on a district.spon. <br />sored bus tour to the Windy Gap site. <br />There a dam and pump statiOI\ are un. <br />der ~onstructionjllst,belowthe'conflu. <br />ence of the CoJorado and Frasel' livers, <br />l'!.zmileswestofGranby. <br />The district plans to try to Sell sur. <br />plus water from the Windy Gap project <br />to-cities in Boulder,LarimerandWeld <br />counties. The surptus water isn't need. <br />cd. by project participants unUl1995. <br />Those financing Ule project lndude <br />Boulder, Longmont,_ Loveland, Gree. <br />ley, Estcs Park and the Platte lUver <br />Power AUU10rlty, which serves Fort <br />Collins. These cities are due to begin <br />payments on water in 1985, whether <br />lheyneeditornot. <br />Marvin Thurber, Broomfield's pub. <br />lic.worksdirnctor,rollfrrmedhiscityis <br />ronslderingWindy Gap water and also <br />the possibility of jl)ining the Illiitrict, <br />but added "all.options_areopen." <br />"Like aU cities we're il)tm'ested in <br />anybody's water," he -explained. <br />"Man~oflhesixcitiesean'tmaketheir <br /> <br /> <br />. bond. payments" in 1985,sothey "are <br />trying to peddle water down here." <br />LafayeUe water attorney David Lin. <br />dholm said he would "rather not com. <br />ment" on that city'sposiUon on buymg <br />Windy Gap water; and Louisville City <br />Manager LeOn Wurl'was-vacatloning <br />. and no one else jn city government was <br />availahleforcommenl. <br />Simpson said thai, although the dis. <br />trictboardwUloffertheciti~theop. <br />portunlty to join the district, he denied <br />it Is in competition with the Denver <br />Water Board. <br />lie drew a distinction lor' Boulder <br />County offlctals Oil the tour between <br />"wefwater" (water ready to be deIiv. <br />ered from Windy Gap) and."paperwa. <br />tel''' (water rights, which cities buy <br />that ilre reduced when they are "per. <br />fected" Instate watercollrt). <br />. "Whethertlley (the cities) will get <br />wet water out of lhe Denver Water <br />Board project is something they,liave <br />to weigh on their counclls," Simpscln <br />said. . <br />CUlTently Broomfield, Lafayette and <br /> <br />PRPA <br />Rawhide Site <br />o <br /> <br />"'k. <br />E.... <br /> <br />~'n <br /> <br />1 eFt. Collins <br /> <br />. Plnewood Greetey <br />... Lake III Loveland . <br />.. <br />. 'A FlatIron <br />Cartet'V Reaervlor <br />"'k. <br /> <br />Boulder <br />Rnet'YQlr <br />'ir <br />. <br />Boulder <br /> <br />. Longmont <br /> <br />.. POWlIfPlam <br />. Pumping Slatlon <br />-Tunnel <br />;;::Above Ground LIne <br /> <br />Louisville nave contracted with'the <br />Denver Water Board lo help pay for the <br />environmental impact statement for <br />the proposed Two Forks project.. <br />According to "Denver Water Board <br />spokesman Ed Reutz, of the 47 entities <br />contracting for the W7 million environ. <br />mentalsludy now under way, Broom. <br />field is paying $268,000; Lafayette, <br />;201,000; and Louisville, $67 000. <br />TJle participants in the Denver Wa- <br />ter Board study also soon will be asked <br />to sign a contract for the'estimated <br />;240 milUoll to;200millloncollsttuction <br />phase oC Two Forks by Oct. 25, aCCilrd. <br />ingloReutz. , , . <br />Broomfield's Thurber con!irmed lhat <br />the optiollsstill are opell."We're watch. <br />ing Windy Gap. We're interested, bul . <br />notnegotialing. ,.. <br />"If they are_serious, they (the north. <br />em district) need to make some moves <br />to us to prove they are really going to <br />offer the water," Thurber said, noting <br />thattlJe"contractisonthestreet"fol' <br />the second phase of .the Denver <br />project. <br />