July 6, 2008--Yampa pumpback stalled (Steamboat Pilot)
A potential project to pump water from the Yampa River near Maybell east to the Front Range has stalled after its initial conception and a successful feasibility study. Conceptual plans for the nearly $4 billion project were introduced in 2006. But officials at the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, which services eight counties on the Front Range and in northeastern Colorado, have announced they will not pursue the plan in the near future — but it might be advanced by other agencies. Original plans for the project called for at least one reservoir to be built north of Maybell in Moffat County. It would store water that would be pumped more than 200 miles east across the Continental Divide to a lake north of Denver. The plans included three proposed pipeline routes that all would have passed through Routt County. An engineering study for the entire project had an estimated completion date of 2023.
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