Hurdles remain for possible interstate water pipeline

FORT COLLINS – A Fort Collins man has a plan he says could solve Colorado’s water needs for at least the next 100 years.

Aaron Million has been traveling all over the region and to Washington, D.C. since 2003 extolling the virtues of his idea of tapping into the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in southwestern Wyoming and northeastern Utah just across the northwest Colorado border.

At the core of his project is a 400-mile, $3 billion pipeline that he says could bring Flaming Gorge water eastward along the Interstate 80 corridor to Laramie and then drop southeast into Colorado north of Fort Collins.…