Thornton has been claiming for years that without access to Poudre water shares it has owned for decades, long-planned residential growth in the city is jeopardized — including affordable hou…
Segments of Thornton’s 70-mile water pipe wait to be buried in Windsor in November 2020. The Adams County city is asking Larimer County for a permit to run a pipe from the Cache La Poudre River to its residents. Thornton owns shares in the Poudre but so far hasn’t been able to build a pipe to collect that water.
Before casting her yes vote Wednesday, Larimer County Commissioner Kristin Stephens said she wished Thornton would send its water down the Poudre “because that’s what the community wants.”“Thornton’s pipeline is the best of what feels like a bad solution,” she said. The city also relocated a pump house from the original plan to a site that is not near any houses, and it agreed to 83 county land use conditions to move the project forward.
“Thornton taking its water down the Poudre river — that’s what makes a neighbor into a hero,” she said. The city insists on moving its water by pipe rather than via river so it can maintain the quality of the water it’s conveying by not running it through Fort Collins and past several wastewater treatment plants.
Thornton too has argued that without the Poudre shares it has owned for decades, long-envisioned home construction — critical forWednesday’s decision puts to rest Thornton’s years-long effort to pipe its water the full distance, from a point on the Poudre northwest of Fort Collins past Interstate 25 and then south to Thornton.
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