Petition to preserve the Poudre river

thanks for posting this, everyone should sign it just out of pure love for the wilderness, even if it doesnt affect you.

great cause

I've already signed it but good cause. Glade Reservoir is such a horrible idea on so many levels.

my brother has proposed making shirts that say.... "keep your dam hands of my poudre" and give the proceeds to the save the poudre organization...i think he could do fairly well in the immediate fort collins area too bad we live in pennsyltucky during the summers and cant get the ball rolling

i might be able to help with that. kid i'm living with right now has been wanting to start a shirt business for a while.

Im probably gonna get shitted on for this but....

My dad is professor at CSU and he does alot of research on this stuff, from what he has told me, this dam would be good and would not drain the Poudre. From what he has told me they would only fill it with water that comes from excess runoff. Such is the case as right now, the water that is flooding would be put in a reservoir for future use. Just saying its not going to drain the river...

what department is your dad in?

Civil and environmental.

interesting sounds like ill be meeting your dad fairly soon here ill be in the environmental program out there in the fall...but from what i have heard and read (which is minimal) it seems like a temporary fix for a long term problem (something us humans have been doing for way too long)...

By civil and environmental, do you mean civil/environemntal engineering? Cuz a statement like that would make a lot more sense coming from someone of that perspective.



I don't personally know about how much it would drain from the river directly off the top of my head, but i know for a fact that it threatens it's water and it's ecology. taking water form the river is not the only concern with building two dams, one being 4x the size of horsetooth (which is huge). dams trap water in a stagnant location and evaporate causing water displacement/loss, it builds up sediment that should otherwise be downstream and therefore causes downstream erosion, and it'll cost more than it is worth. This project not only endangers the Poudre river and it's ecology but it also would take away water from Agriculture in Northern CO.


Quoted directly from http://www.savethepoudre.org/the-farm-facts.html

The Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP) along with Glade and Galeton Reservoirs, threatens the agricultural economy of northern Colorado. Here's why:

NISP would accelerate the buy-up and subdivision of irrigated farms in northern Colorado;

NISP would accelerate salinization of productive crop lands;

NISP would end most "free river" diversion opportunities and impact many existing water users;

NISP would submerge and divide productive agricultural land;

The “Initial Fill” and ongoing diversions into Glade and Galeton Reservoirs are likely to come from northern Colorado and West Slope farm water.

NISP is not like the Colorado Big Thompson (C-BT) project. NISP would take water away from agriculture, not bring new water in for agriculture. NISP would help force the dry-up of 67,000 acres of irrigated farms in northern Colorado, and NISP could directly cause the temporary or long-term dry-up of an additional 56,000 acres of irrigated agriculture in northern Colorado and the West Slope.

If NISP is built, approximately 123,000 acres of agricultural land – 1/6th of all of the irrigated land in northern Colorado – could be negatively impacted.

They're not doing it!

I can't find any information on this. Where did you hear that?

Click on the petition link.

sweeeeeet