Dispute flares over 2009 NISP public affairs plan

BERTHOUD – In its running battle with the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District over a proposed reservoir, the Save the Poudre Coalition is alleging the district created a “secret plan” earlier this year to “dupe taxpayers” into supporting the $426 million water storage and supply project.

Gary Wockner, spokesman for the coalition, said the district has renamed the Northern Integrated Supply Project – or NISP – and the 15 participants lined up to buy water from the project as “Communities for Water,” a name he says is a “cynical step” to rebrand the “dying Glade Reservoir scheme.”

“I think the NISP project…