Cadillac Desert

The Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District hopes to divert as much of its 30,000 acre-feet of water as possible from the Colorado River every year to the East Slope.

With about 60 percent of the upper Colorado already being diverted by Northern and Denver Water, this project would take another 20 percent of a river struggling to survive.

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The Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, a public agency created in 1937, provides water for agricultural, municipal, domestic and industrial uses in northeastern Colorado.

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