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The city of Broomfield has bought Colorado-Big Thompson Project water owned by the Western Sugar Cooperative for its Greeley sugar processing plant for $7.65 million. The city paid about $10,000 for each of the 766 shares or a little more than 525 acre-feet, which is enough water for a year's supply of slightly more than 1,000 homes. The Colorado-Big Thompson Project, which delivers water to northern Colorado from the Western Slope, is administered by the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District. It provides a supplemental water supply to municipalities, industry and agriculture in the eight-county area of northern and northeastern Colorado. The city and county of Broomfield is included within the project's boundaries.

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