A band of residents who want to prevent Glade Reservoir believe 15 cites and water districts can find water for future growth from conservation and fallowing instead of from the “already stressed” Poudre River. The Save the Poudre Coalition — a group of thousands of area residents including scientists, economists and land stewards, many with doctoral degrees — released its own alternative Wednesday to the reservoir Northern Water wants to build northwest of Fort Collins. Today, members will send their Healthy Rivers Alternative, with hundreds of pages of documentation and scientific findings and more than 5,000 signatures on a petition, to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to ask the decision makers to discard their current environmental evaluation and start over. 

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