| Write Your Representatives - Your Voice Matters! |
Politicians are like weathervanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.
- David Brower |
| The NISP project is expected to cost at least $426 million in capital costs plus potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in interest and huge annual operating costs. Thirteen communities and water districts have subscribed to shares in NISP. Many are outside the Cache la Poudre Watershed. Most intend to finance it with debt loads of $2,000 to $5,000 per resident. Repaying these costs requires higher water rates for existing residents and extraordinary population growth to pay tap fees. As of March, 2006, their requested allocations were as follows: |
| Towns and Water Districts that are NISP Subscribers |
| Entity |
NISP Shares |
Contact |
| Berthoud |
1,300 |
Berthoud Town Government
PO Box 1229
328 Massachusetts Ave
Berthoud CO 80513
Email: mcowdin@ci.berthoud.co.us |
| Central Weld County Water District |
7,100 |
James Miller, Board President
23402 County Road 35
La Salle
, CO 80645
Email: jodi@cwcwd.com |
| Eaton |
1,300 |
Town of Eaton
223 First Street
Eaton, Colorado 80615
Phone: (970) 454-3338 FAX: (970) 454-3339
Email: webmaster@eatonco.org |
| Erie |
6,500 |
Erie Board of Trustees
645 Holbrook PO Box 750
Erie, CO 80516
Phone:
303-926-2700
Email: moore@erieco.gov |
| Evans |
1,600 |
Evans City Council
1100 37th Street
Evans, CO 80620-2036
Phone:
(970) 339-5344
EMail: smelby@ci.evans.co.us |
| Fort Collins-Loveland Water District |
3,000 |
Fort Collins-Loveland Water District
5150 Snead Dr
Fort Collins, CO 80525
Phone: (970) 226-3104
Email: mike@fclwd.com |
| Fort Lupton |
3,000 |
Fort Lupton City Council
130 South McKinley Avenue
Fort Lupton, Colorado 80621
Phone: (303) 857-6694 FAX: (303) 857-0351
EMail: LuptonCouncil@aol.com |
| Fort Morgan |
3,600 |
P.O. Box 100,
Fort Morgan, CO 80701
Phone:
(970) 542-3960 FAX: (970) 542-3968
Email: mayor@cityoffortmorgan.com |
| Lafayette |
1,800 |
City of Lafayette
1290 South Public Road
Lafayette, CO 80026
Phone:
(303) 665-5588
Email: chris.berry@cityoflafayette.com |
| Left Hand Water District |
4,900 |
Left Hand Water District
P.O. Box 210
Niwot, CO 80544-0210
Phone:
(303) 530-4200 FAX: (303) 530-5252
Email: lhwd@lefthandwater.org |
| Morgan County Q.W.D. |
1,300 |
Morgan County Quality Water District
17586 Morgan County Rd 20
Fort Morgan, CO 80701
Phone:
(970) 867-3054 |
| Severance |
1,300 |
Town of Severance
231 4th Ave.
Severance, CO 80546
970-686-1218 |
| Windsor |
3,300 |
Town of Windsor
301 Walnut Street
Windsor, Colorado 80550
Phone:
(970) 686-7476 FAX: (970) 686-7180
Email: https://ci.windsor.co.us/forms/frmtownbdfeedbk.html |
| TOTAL |
40,000 |
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| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
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Mr. Chandler Peter
US Army Corps of Engineers
Denver Regulatory Office
9307 South Wadsworth Blvd.
Littleton, CO 80123
303–979–4120; Fax 303–979–0602 |
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| Larimer County Commissioners |
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| Email all Commissioners:bocc@larimer.org |
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Kathay Rennels
District I
P.O. Box 1190 Fort Collins, CO 80522-1190
Phone:
(970) 498-7001 Fax: (970) 498-7985
Email: krennels@larimer.org |
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Steve Johnson
District II
Phone: 498-7002; Fax: (970) 498-7985
P.O. Box 1190 Fort Collins, CO 80522-1190
Email: sjohnson@larimer.org |
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Tom Donnelly
District III
P.O. Box 1190 Fort Collins, CO 80522-1190
Phone: (970) 498-7003 Fax: (970) 498-7985
Email: tdonnelly@larimer.org |
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| State of Colorado Governor |
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Governor Bill Ritter (D)
Office of the Governor, 136 State Capitol Bldg. Denver, CO 80203-1792
(Include a Colorado mailing address if you wish to receive a reply. Do not include any attachments.)
Phone:
303-866-2471
Email: Governor.Ritter@state.co.us |
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| Federal Representative |
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Betsy Markey (D)
1229 Longworth HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: (202) 225-4676
Fax: (202) 225-5870
E-mail: betsy.markey@mail.house.gov |
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| If you live in one of these communities, and you are concerned about this project, please contact your elected representatives at the addresses and phone numbers above. |
| Details on the proposed Glade Reservoir can be found at http://www.ncwcd.org/project_features/nisp_doc.asp. You can contact the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District at: 220 Water Avenue, Berthoud, Colorado 80513, 970-532-7700. |
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| Points you may choose to make (or modify to suit) include: |
| • Ask the Corps of Engineers for a 180-day comment period to thoroughly review and comment on the complex draft EIS. |
| • I am deeply concerned that Larimer County and the Poudre River are being used as sacrifice zones to subsidize rapid uncontrolled development on the Eastern Plains. We get all the negative impacts, and they make massive financial profits. |
| • As a fiscal conservative, I’m disturbed that economic analyses show that water conservation is five to ten times cheaper than building dams, but yet these cities are choosing to waste millions in taxpayer money on this wildly expensive project. |
| • The Poudre River is already drained and dried up as it runs through Fort Collins in over a dozen places every year. This project will further drain and dry the river that provides so much enjoyment to our citizens and helps fuel our economy. |
| • As a fiscal conservative, I disapprove of the borrow-and-spend and tax-and-spend programs that will pay for this project. The public demands fiscal responsibility, not deficits and massive debt loads. |
| • This project will fuel rapid uncontrolled growth on the Eastern plains. Tens-of-thousands of acres of farms will be sold to developers, and the economy based on working farms and ranches will disappear even faster. |
| • The Larimer County public has spent tens-of-millions of dollars building the Poudre River Trail and buying land around the river. Now, cities from outside our county are going to spend a half-billion dollars to further drain the Poudre. We gain nothing. We lose our huge investment in hiking, biking and walking trails. |
| • If you build it, they will come. The Glade Reservoir is like ringing the dinner bell for rapid uncontrolled growth in Northern Colorado. |
| • Water conservation will not decrease your quality of life, whereas Glade Reservoir will put each subscribing family $5,000 to $15,000 in debt. |
| • In five years they will say, “Fort Collins: A River Used to Run Though It.” |
| • Conservation is cheaper, conservation is sustainable, and conservation will preserve the Poudre River. |
| • Like Debt? Approve Glade. |
| • These cities want Glade Reservoir so they don’t have to buy low-flow toilets. I think we should flush Glade. |
| • Glade will kill Northern Colorado’s agricultural economy. The Ranch will be ringed with strip malls. You’ll have to truck cows in from Wyoming to have the Fair. |
