Owns the water
State law and the state engineer's office decide who has the right to a stream in a given year.
Water conservancy district · local
Northern Water
Special district that captures supplemental water diverted from the Colorado River basin and delivers it to more than 1.1 million people and about 550,000 irrigated acres across eight northeastern Colorado counties.
Local to South Platte, Colorado
Their role in the four decisions
How to read Northern Water
Plans ahead
Basin roundtables and statewide planning set priorities for supply, rivers, and agriculture.
Pays for the work
State grant programs and statewide funds pay for most local water projects.
Does it on the ground
Northern Water does the on-the-ground work: delivering, treating, restoring, or monitoring water locally.
Neighborhood
Who they work with
Each relationship below is read off a public page, not inferred.
Reclamation's Eastern Colorado Area Office names Northern Water as a partner in operating the Colorado-Big Thompson Project.
Source ↗PARTNERSHIP
Northern Water names Greeley as one of six municipal partners in the Windy Gap Project.
Source ↗Northern Water is an official cooperator in NRCS's Colorado Snow Survey Program.
Source ↗IMPLEMENTATION
Northern Water manages delivery of Colorado-Big Thompson and Windy Gap Project raw water to Broomfield's Water Treatment Plant.
Source ↗City of Fort Collins Utilities
PARTNERSHIP
Fort Collins was one of six Northern Colorado cities that formed Northern Water's Municipal Subdistrict to develop the Windy Gap Project.
Source ↗Source: public record ↗ · last verified: not recorded for this entry yet.
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