Glade Reservoir - Impact Report
April 30th, 2008
The impact report on the new Glade Reservoir is out from the Army Corps of Engineers. The report is allegedly on their website, http://www.usace.army.mil, but if you can find it, you are better than I.
Guess we will just have to take what the local papers said about it as fact. NoCoPolitics.com has links to the local articles.
While I personally support the reservoir, and understand the need for more water in Northern Colorado, I can certainly respect the position of the people who want to preserve the river. What I cannot understand, or condone, are the individuals complaining about the population growth. If you think there are too many people in Northern Colorado, MOVE. If you live here, you are part of the problem. This is America, new people have as much right to move in here as you did a year ago, your family did twenty years ago, or my family did 150 years ago. Water conservation and stemming population growth are nice ideas, but none of us would live here now if our forefathers hadn’t had the foresight to build reservoirs.
2 Comments »
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI
Bob, the tax payers back East footed the bill for years to provide water projects to “Green the Deserts.”
The Army core of Engineers built the reservoirs, not your forefathers.
All built with taxes.
They should have never been built. It was a big waste of tax dollars, and it’s entirely unsustainable. We still pay to this day so you can pretend you are a pioneer.and that you are against wasting tax money.
Yeah, right. you seem fine with wasting other peoples tax money. You are a hypocrite, IMHO.
Comment by Zippy — April 28, 2009 @ 9:40 am
You don’t think my forefathers could have been the politicians that approved the projects or the Engineers that built the reservoirs? You don’t think my forefathers paid the taxes that funded the reservoirs?
How can you say the Colorado reservoirs were a waste of tax dollars and are unsustainable? The water projects in Colorado, Utah, Arizona and California have created a tremendous amount of fertile and habitable land. Without these reservoirs the Front Range would be empty. Weld County is one of the largest agricultural producers in the United States and this would not be the case without the water from the mountains. Many of these projects have existed for nearly 100 years and are still supplying water to Front Range communities.
Comment by Bob — April 28, 2009 @ 10:10 am