Here's How Chimney Hollow Reservoir Will Be Filled Once It's Built

Northern Water's Joe Donnelly and Jeff Drager explain in this video how the new 90,000 acre-foot Chimney Hollow Reservoir, located southwest of Loveland, will be filled with water once construction is completed in 2025.

[@aklags]

Disgusting. Even as a resident of one of the places getting this water I’m against it. The Colorado river is done, this and tbe gross dam expansion will take so much water out of the upper Colorado that trout fishing and life for everyone on the western slope will decline. Very sad. We could be reducing water use instead of paying tons of money to destroy our state’s waterways. Screw these projects focus on reducing use and cap the size/growth of the front range cities by limiting their water.

[@DaMoose13]

Taking water unnaturally from one side of a mountain range to another won't have drastic consequences, will it?

[@normanott644]

Lake Powell water going to eastern Colorado where all the land was farmland, now replaced by houses.

[@fender10g]

Do you have a point?

[@theamaturepro]

Right? We constantly hear about how much water farmers and ranchers use, but the problems with water supply didn't arise until all the farm land was transformed into suburbs where the people blaming agriculture live. The front range has become such a stain on Colorado

[@vw8886]

So the west side has too much water?

[@rblueroan2205]

No , just not enough people to fight back , and keep the water here , I’ve been through three different water reductions on my farm , to the point I could at the time grow just enough hay for my animals , none to sell , larger farms fallowed over half of their producing acerage , this is in the near thirty years I’ve owned this place

[@theamaturepro]

​@@rblueroan2205I'm not sure where you're located, but as a Western Slope rancher I can relate. Can't help but notice the content you replied to doesn't seem to be self aware enough to consider where all our abundance of water goes and the millions dependant on it down stream. Who deserves river water more, people who built on the river or people who built where there's no river and divert the water through mountains claiming they have a right to it? Every nature loving environmentalist living on the front range is the core contribute of the water shortages in the western US. If it weren't for the front Renee range, there wouldn't be an issue. Such ignorance

[@rblueroan2205]

@@theamaturepro Sadly most of the water users aren’t aware of its basin of origin , nor how much they waste . . The front range is damaging to the western slope , however so is California , how many millions if not billions of gallons of water do they go through , above and beyond their allotment. As you pointed out they all have their hands out for the upper Colorado water , while we , who live here are under constant strain , especially if you’re in an irrigation district , and not priority water . The ranch I was a kid on in South Park was the third oldest on the Tarryall , Aurora tried to buy the rights , fortunately the owners managed to hold that off . Being in the livestock /farm industry we have to fight all angles , without real allies