Federal Judge Rejects Lawsuit Challenging Windy Gap Firming Project
/ 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 satisfy demands from fast-growing cities like Longmont, Greeley, Erie and Lafayette. Federal judge Timot...