Environmental Stewardship
Northern Water participates in numerous environmental stewardship programs, including protecting and restoring endangered species’ habitat on the Platte River, re-establishing threatened and endangered fish species in the Upper Colorado River basin, and helping provide emission-free hydroelectric power to thousands of customers in three states.
Northern Water and numerous other organizations, and federal, state and local agencies are working to re-establish populations of threatened and endangered fish species in the Upper Colorado River basin.
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This required environmental document examines all the possible environmental impacts of the Windy Gap Firming Project. The project includes a proposed reservoir west of Carter Lake and Berthoud, CO.
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Decades before “carbon footprint” was a common term, Colorado-Big Thompson Project hydroelectric plants began producing billions of kilowatt hours of clean electrical energy for thousands of residents in Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska.
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Northern Water is working with a group of 60 Colorado water users, including municipal, agricultural and industrial interests, two other states and the U.S. Department of the Interior to help restore endangered species’ habitat in the Platte River basin.
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Northern Integrated Supply Project
Draft Environmental Impact Statement
This required environmental document examines all the possible environmental impacts of the Northern Integrated Supply Project. The project includes a proposed 170,000-acre-foot reservoir north of Fort Collins.
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The Colorado-Big Thompson Project's Lake Granby was the first federally-owned dam and reservoir in the Western U.S. to stipulate year-round minimum water releases.
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