From The Greeley Tribune:
With NISP online, some of the recent regional flooding concerns would have been alleviated and the floodwaters would have been stored for future use, according to Northern Water. The proposed project includes two reservoirs, the Glade Reservoir off the Poudre River north of Fort Collins and the Galeton Reservoir east of Ault. The two would provide storage for 215,000 acre-feet of water…
Diversions off the Poudre to fill the two reservoirs would mostly be available during high runoff years, according to Carl Brouwer, manager of the proposed project at the district. Galeton would have filled during the past fall and winter and remained full with the huge spring runoff this year, Brouwer said in a news release. “More than 50,000 acre-feet of water from this spring could have been stored in Glade Reservoir were it built, in addition to water during 2009,” Brouwer said.
Glade and Galeton reservoirs are the key components to NISP, which is proposed by 15 northern Front Range cities, towns and water districts. The project is under review by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. When full, Glade would store 170,000 acre-feet of water and Galeton would hold 45,000 acre-feet.
“This is one of those years when you wish we had these projects in place so the water could be saved for the citizens of northern Colorado,” Eric Wilkinson said. He is Northern Water’s general manager.
More Northern Integrated Supply Project coverage here and here.