Opposition is mounting rapidly to a Colorado man’s proposal to pipe Green River water from Utah to the Denver area — and the objections aren’t coming only from the usual suspects.
Despite growing water scarcity, states that share the Colorado River have been reluctant to openly criticize their neighbors’ water development proposals. But officials in Utah and Colorado are lining up against the latest idea to deliver water from Flaming Gorge to the greater Denver metropolitan area.
The Utah Division of Water Resources was among the first to file formal objections to Fort Collins resident Aaron Million’s application to export 55,000 acre-feet of water from the Green River, to be tapped near Utah’s Browns Park in Daggett County.