Front Range water users are growing impatient over the slow pace of study of whether any plan for bringing water from the Colorado River watershed to the Front Range could work. Members of three roundtables - the Arkansas, South Platte and Metro - gathered last week in a joint session to look at common water issues. After hearing reports on two plans that would bring more water to the Front Range and reviewing the Statewide Water Supply Initiative, the group came close to asking the state to begin a study of relative merits of several competing plans. Weighing the need for Western Slope roundtables to reach consensus against a more risky go-it-alone approach, the group finally backed down. It was abundantly clear, however, that most thought a study of some sort is overdue.

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