Northern Water to set water quota with supplies below or near normal

LOVELAND — Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District board members will decide Thursday where to set the Colorado-Big Thompson water allocation for the 2022 growing season.

Based on discussion at the annual Spring Water Users Meeting held in Loveland at the Embassy Suites Hotel Conference Center, farmers, cities and towns that rely upon the C-BT water are likely to see the allocation set at about 70%, the most common allocation in recent years.

An allocation at that level means that the owner of a share — or 1 acre-foot — of the C-BT project would be able to realize 0.7 of it. With…