Raindance project ‘breaks rules’

Windsor water-storage plan equals Lake Loveland

WINDSOR — Economics of Northern Colorado water, and a reversal in the traditional thinking about water projects, are driving a water-storage proposal in Windsor that promises to be one of the largest — and most exotic — in the region’s history.

A barren, dry-land hilltop two miles east of the new Larimer County Fairgrounds site has the new name Raindance Ridge, and will feature a network of constructed reservoirs that will store 10,000 acre feet of water, ringed by residential estate lots.

The $40 million project is the invention of Windsor developer Martin Lind, who turned a…