REP. BOEBERT IN THE DENVER GAZETTE ON FIGHTING FOR WATER PROJECTS AND COLORADO’S FUTURE
Lone Tree, CO — Rep. Lauren Boebert (CO-04) published a guest opinion in the Denver Gazette on the fight for drinking water, storage, and treatment in Colorado’s 4th District, and on stopping efforts that would divert South Platte water out of the state.
"Water decides whether a farm stays in the family, whether a small town can fight a fire, and whether our kids have a reason to stay. I will always fight for it,” Rep. Boebert wrote.
“Families in the southeast still drink groundwater that can carry radium and uranium. Towns on the Eastern Plains are one well failure away from a boil order. Cities along the Front Range are trying to get off nonrenewable groundwater before the wells run down,” Rep. Boebert wrote. “It gets fixed with storage, pipes, treatment plants and a spine in Washington.”
Rep. Boebert’s legislative work for Colorado water includes:
- Thirteen community project requests signed into law, including $11.75 million for water projects: a Plum Creek-to-Rueter-Hess pipeline for Castle Rock; a Cobb Lake treatment plant for Severance, Windsor, Eaton, and Weld County neighbors; consolidation of the Prairie View Ranch system near Wiggins; a wastewater plant in Lamar; well redundancy in Kiowa; reverse-osmosis treatment in Brush; and upgrades in Ovid, Louviers, and Walsh
- Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit language that has passed the House twice in the last three months, aimed at 39 communities and roughly 50,000 people in Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers, and Pueblo counties who were promised clean water from Pueblo Reservoir
- Opposition to the Perkins County Canal and Senate Water Resources Development Act language that would force the Army Corps of Engineers to approve a permit so Nebraska can cut through Sedgwick County and take South Platte water
“If that Senate language moves forward and the Corps is pushed to sign off, the Supreme Court won’t matter,” Rep. Boebert wrote. “The permit becomes the project. I will not trade away Sedgwick County in a permitting deadline written for another state.”
“These are not headlines. They are pipes in the ground,” Rep. Boebert wrote. “Colorado water should stay under Colorado control. Water is how Colorado works. I am never giving it up.”
Read the Denver Gazette guest opinion: