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Aerial support provided by LightHawk Windy Gap Reservoir, near the Colorado Rivers headwaters, has been cited as the cause of declining numbers of aquatic insects downstream of its confluence with the Fraser River. Environmental groups suing to halt construction of the Windy Gap Firming Project in Northern Colorado have agreed to drop their case in exchange for $15 million to address concerns about the proposed project’s water quality and ecological effects. The Windy Gap Firming Project inc...

Portlaoise Gardaí are investigating incidents of dangerous driving on the busy N80 through Stradbally this week. Gardaí say that at approximately ...

DENVER — A coalition of environmental groups is bringing claims to a higher court that federal regulators incorrectly issued permits to an upcoming reservoir project on the Front Range. In documents filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver, the groups say that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers erred in issuing approvals to the project after years of public comments and environmental analysis, saying the agencies failed to include al...

Northern Water A United States District Court judge has ruled in favor of the Windy Gap Firming Project, clearing the way for construction of Chimney Hollow Reservoir near Berthoud. This ruling should also make it possible to move forward with environmental mitigation and enhancements related to the project, including construction of the Colorado River Connectivity Channel near Granby. Judge Timothy M. Tymkovich dismissed a 2017 lawsuit filed by environmental groups led by Save the Colorado aga...

BERTHOUD — A United States District Court judge has ruled in favor of the Windy Gap Firming Project, clearing the way for construction of Chimney Hollow Reservoir near Berthoud. This ruling should also make it possible to move forward with environmental mitigation and enhancements related to the project, including construction of the Colorado River Connectivity Channel near Granby. Judge Timothy M. Tymkovich dismissed a 2017 lawsuit filed by environmental groups led by Save the Colorado again...

/ Nick Cote/Aerial support provide Windy Gap Reservoir, seen here in Sept. 2018, would be partially redesigned as part of the project to allow the Colorado River to bypass the storage lake. A federal judge has rejected a challenge to the Windy Gap Firming Project, a proposed Front Range water supply project with plans to build a new dam and reservoir southwest of Loveland. The Windy Gap Firming Project proposes to move water from the Western Slope to the planned Chimney Hollow Reservoir to sati...