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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  
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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
Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District
Board of Directors, NCWCD
220 Water Avenue Berthoud, Colorado 80513
Phone: (970) 532-7700
Email: http://www.ncwcd.org/ncwcd_about/contact_us.asp
State Senators, Larimer County
Bob Bacon (D)
District 14
Phone: 303-866-4841 Fax: 303-866-4543
Email: bob.bacon.senate@state.co.us
Kevin Lundberg (R)
District 15
200 E. Colfax
Denver, CO 80203
Capitol Phone: 303-866-4853
Email: kevin@kevinlundberg.com
State Representatives, Larimer County
B.J. Nikkel (R)
District 49
200 E. Colfax
Denver, CO 80203
Phone: 303-866-2907
Email: rep.nikkel@gmail.com
Don Marostica (R)
District 51
Phone: 303-866-2947
Address: 200 E. Colfax, Denver, CO 80203
Email: don.marostica.house@state.co.us
John Kefalas (D)
District 52
Phone: 303-866-4569
Email: john.kefalas.house@state.co.us
Randy Fischer (D)
District 53
Phone: (303)866-2917
Email: randy.fischer.house@state.co.us
Larimer County Commissioners
Email all Commissioners:bocc@larimer.org
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
Steve Johnson
District II
Phone: 498-7002; Fax: (970) 498-7985
P.O. Box 1190 Fort Collins, CO 80522-1190
Email: sjohnson@larimer.org
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
State of Colorado Governor
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
Federal Senators
Michael F. Bennet (D)
702 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-5852
E-mail: Senator_Bennet@bennet.senate.gov
Mark Udall (D)
B40E Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-5941; Fax: 202-224-6471
E-mail: Senator_Mark_Udall@markudall.senate.gov
Federal Representative
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
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.
 
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.