Posted on March 16, 2016
By Kevin Duggan, Coloradoan
The process of getting regulatory permission to enlarge a Fort Collins reservoir is going to take more time and money.
City officials say additional water-quality studies required by federal and state agencies are likely to delay release of a draft Environmental Impact Statement, or EIS, for the proposed Halligan Reservoir expansion until 2017. The document was expected to be released this year.
The studies are expected to cost about $475,000 on top of the $8.2 million already spent as part of the environmental review process, said Adam Jokerst, water resources engineer with Fort Collins Utilities.
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