DENVER A coalition of environmental groups is bringing claims to a higher court that federal regulators incorrectly issued permits to an upcoming reservoir project on the Front Range.
In documents filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver, the groups say that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers erred in issuing approvals to the project after years of public comments and environmental analysis, saying the agencies failed to include alternatives to the Windy Gap expansion as proposed, didn’t fully consider the environmental impacts of the project and used population projections as its basis for pursuing additional water supplies rather than actual water use data.