Feds Clog Million’s Pipe Dream

Conservationists are applauding the recent quashing of the Million/Flaming Gorge Pipeline project—developer Aaron Million’s mega-bucks pitch to suck water from Utah’s Flaming Gorge Reservoir to Colorado’s thirsty Front Range. Feds nixed the proposal yesterday.

Meanwhile Million—no relation to the Million Dollar Man, Ted DiBiase—is unfazed and promises to continue soliciting bids, including new engineering and pipeline details within two weeks.  

And the sad fact remains, Colorado needs water. According to the Denver Post, if the state’s population continues to climb, it could be short 1 million acre-feet per year by 2050.

“The conservation and sportsmen groups applauding Thursday’s federal decision had few ideas for resolving the projected water deficit beyond more conservation.”

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